Do you think these things come into existence because there
are budgets which need to be spent, or that there really is
a baseline need and nobody has the sense/knowledge/expertise
to solve the problem in an elegant manner?
- S
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bone <jbone@activerse.com>
To: Sally Khudairi <sk@zotgroup.com>
Cc: FoRK <fork@xent.com>
Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Red Herring: The end of the URL as we know it
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>And other namespaces...
>
>Anybody know anything about NIGP? It's this monstrous,
standard, gov't
>"product code" namespace. Everything from canned green
beans to school
>buses to diapers. Used in governmental purchasing. A
company I was
>consulting for a while back "owned" the maintenance of this
namespace as
>a sideline --- they had a group of folks in a room that
people would
>call up and say "what's the code for a polyethylene enema
bag?" These
>"coders" would discover that there wasn't a code for this
item, and
>they'd come up with one and log it in the code. Standard
updates to the
>"codebook" would be distributed periodically. It was even
ontologically
>organized, so that related codes were close according to
some sort
>order.
>
>Weird, huh?
>
>Namespaces are big business.
>
>jb
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