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I don't really want to classify objects.

I want to refer to a registration in a registry. Objects can of course be regidtered many places for many reasons but that is not my concern here.

As long as I can serialize the tuple (registry-somone-made, id-in-that-registry) in a standard and readable way that would be a huge step forward



> I want to refer to a registration in a registry.

But that's not the question you posed in the original post. You asked about URNs, and the URN registry imposes a taxonomy. You're wanting a registry of identifiers classified by country and type. That's a taxonomy.

Why depend on someone else's registry? Make your own, don't worry about taxonomy, and use it.


Thanks for that explanation. My first guess that it was an analogy to the Library of Babel and I was able to convince myself that made sense.




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