[tei-council] soft deprecation of @key: URIs vs. URNs

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 11/13/2011 4:57 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Regarding my commment, I don't feel confident that I'm recommending the
>> right thing.  Who could I call on to help us sort out whether a URI with
>> a non-registered Scheme or a URN with a non-registered Namespace
>> Identifier is better?  Perhaps a friend of the TEI outside of Council?
>
> I tried it at work when we first went round this mulberry bush, and got
> quite a lot of interest from the computer sciency types, but no magic answer.
> We ended up with the former (URI with a non-registered Scheme) as
> being  slightly less abusive, hence the tei:.

I've asked Michael Sperberg-McQueen to recommend someone to weigh in on 
the ticket ( http://purl.org/TEI/fr/3437509 )