Re: Namespaces and URNs

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 13:19:27 -0400


W. Eliot Kimber wrote:

> They are formally defined
> in ISO 8879 (the SGML standard) and in ISO 9070, which defines various
> registration authorities for public IDs (of which the ISBN is one).

Tell me then, if you will, oh mighty oracle :-), what the rules are
for non-formal public identifiers? I think I now grasp FPIs.

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