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Thank you for the quick reply.</div>
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You acknowledged that UCDs don't seem to be RDF-izable, and presumably that applies to VOUnits as well, given the complex rules for composing unit strings from the defined atoms? So for VOUnits as well, the only formal identifier to use would be the ivo://ivoa.net/std
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You wrote:</div>
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> That way, it turns out *one* way to reference UCDs is<br>
> ivo://ivoa.net/std/UCD (which is the UCD standard rather than the UCD<br>
> list; I don't think the latter has a standards record yet, but I also<br>
> think the base spec is the better target).<br>
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And later:</div>
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>UCDs, at this point, aren't a proper IVOA vocabulary, and will never<br>
> exactly be, because they have a grammar that's (I think) impossible<br>
> to map into RDF. So, for them I'd suggest "This is a ucd" would<br>
> always mean referencing ivo://ivoa.net/standards/ucd.</div>
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Are both of those URIs equally valid ("std/UCD" vs. "standards/ucd")? Is there a distinction between them we should be aware of?</div>
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Apart from some Registry-specific restrictions that you helped explain about how the specific "#endpoint-version" fragment identifiers can be used, can you summarize why you think that a vocabulary identifier should not contain a version number? Is this because
there's an implicit (or perhaps explicit, that I haven't absorbed) policy that vocabulary terms will never be withdrawn?</div>
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