paralleldrive/cuid

Question: could we register a cuid: URI scheme, or URN scheme?

melvincarvalho opened this issue · 2 comments

melvincarvalho commented

Question

Might it be useful to register cuids to give them one higher level of scope at web scale?

Examples

It could look like

cuid:ckxls1y3900009yrx442e23rf

Or

urn:cuid:ckxls1y3900009yrx442e23rf

This doesnt handle slugs but would work for a full cuid

Similar Use

This would be similar to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Format

Which has

urn:uuid:123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000

Benefits and Motivation

This has the benefit of being able to be put in a database full of different items identified in different ways, and able to tell what is what

Before registration, simply coming to a consensus of what it would look like would probably be enough to get implementations going

Motivation: I'd like to start using cuids together with linked objects where using a global URI is encouraged

ericelliott commented

I'd be happy to support this process, but I don't have time to champion a scheme standard for it.

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ericelliott commented

The original Cuid specification is now deprecated in favor of Cuid2.