Rule 2: HTTP URIs
Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. Other Information:
The second rule, to use HTTP URIs, is also widely understood. The only deviation has been, since the web started, a constant
tendency for people to invent new URI schemes (and sub-schemes within the urn: scheme) such as LSIDs and handles and XRIs
and DOIs and so on, for various reasons. Typically, these involve not wanting to commit to the established Domain Name System
(DNS) for delegation of authority but to construct something under separate control. Sometimes it has to do with not understanding
that HTTP URIs are names (not addresses) and that HTTP name lookup is a complex, powerful and evolving set of standards. This
issue discussed at length elsewhere, and time does not allow us to delve into it here. [ @@ref TAG finding, etc])
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