discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Lucas Gonze <lgonze AT panix.com>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-07-02 at 10:24 -1000, Lucas Gonze wrote:
>
> > Thinking in a blue sky mode, my preference would be for the 'license' tag
> > to be a URN.  EG:
> >
> > <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/";
> > rel="http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense";>cc by
> > 2.0</a>
>
>
> There's no URN in there. That's an URI, more specifically an URL. URNs
> look like "urn:ietf:rfc:2141", which, by the way, is the RFC that
> describes URNs. URNs are real easy to identify because they start with
> (you guessed it) "urn:".

No, that's a URN namespace.  All URNs are not necessarily in URN 
namespaces.  A URN is characterized by the fact that it is a name first 
and a locator second.

- Lucas