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by dragonwriter 1134 days ago
> Is my knee-jerk judgement that this advice borders on nonsense, unwarranted?

No, the advice is nonsense. URIs in what scheme?

I mean, since URN has a URI scheme and UUID is a URN namespace, so urn:uuid:<uuid-value> is a URI, “use a URI” is not really a mutual-exclusive alternative to using UUID, its just much less specific.