Comment on Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's MirrorsparentComments−agwa2yIt's a way to ensure global uniqueness. In the end they're just compared byte-for-byte as strings.−IshKebab2yPrecisely, so why are they URLs and not something like Java's packages? Or just a URL without the `http://`?−agwa2ySnarky answer: because they're the W3C and are high on their own supply ;-)But it does allow more flexibility. If you don't want to be tied to a domain name, you can use a URN with a UUID like urn:uuid:4603d9d3-e895-4000-9077-0ab0f2776e1e−IshKebab2yYou could also just do `com.mydomain.uid.4603d....` if you wanted. But yeah I think your snarky answer is probably more than a little true!
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It's a way to ensure global uniqueness. In the end they're just compared byte-for-byte as strings.
Precisely, so why are they URLs and not something like Java's packages? Or just a URL without the `http://`?
Snarky answer: because they're the W3C and are high on their own supply ;-)
But it does allow more flexibility. If you don't want to be tied to a domain name, you can use a URN with a UUID like urn:uuid:4603d9d3-e895-4000-9077-0ab0f2776e1e
You could also just do `com.mydomain.uid.4603d....` if you wanted. But yeah I think your snarky answer is probably more than a little true!