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8.2. Resolving Akoma Ntoso URIs
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Naming Conventions
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The AKOMA NTOSO naming architecture is built so as not to rely on the existence of a single storage architecture, since the URIs stored within documents are differentiated from the ones physically representing the resource being sought.
The mapping from architecture-independent URIs into accessible architecture-dependent URLs (representing the best ITEM for the document being sought) are realized through specific applications called URI resolvers.
The AKOMA NTOSO naming architecture is also built so as not to rely on the existence of any individual URI resolver, but assumes that all URIs are correctly resolved in the best available ITEM regardless of the resolving mechanisms. In fact, each naming authority is given the same task of resolving all possible Akoma Ntoso URIs, regardless of whether they belong or not to the country or countries they represent.
This implies that the authority-specific details of URIs are purposefully omitted in this specification, and need to be considered only when first accessing a document. For this reason, all URIs in this specification are prefixed with the arbitrary domain name http://www.authority.org/ that stands for any of an arbitrarily large number of equivalent naming authorities.