The IETF URI group has been working for decades on defining such a
beast -- the URN (Uniform Resource Name). It's currently expected by
the year 2009.
Cheers,
Marc
It's real nice when you can ``just do it!''
We did it for our own use and it looks like this:
pdi://authority-name//4-digit-year/2-digit-month/2-digit-day/document-of-the-day-number.format.version
authority-name is a hierarchical name reflecting organizational subsumption,
country => organization and office
version is a number
format is an extension which is ignored for the purposes of document
identification but useful for return documents in a particular format
Of course, we didn't do document fragments in arbitrary formats.
Most everything else should be an assertion about the object.