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• Subject: RE: RDDL (was RE: Negotiate Out The Noise)
• From: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@i...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:20:42 +0000
• In-reply-to: <575CBD83AE7DD411A23500B0D049C2F941A429@SRVSOCRATE>

At 15:57 18/01/2002 +0100, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
>OK. Following RFC 2396, namespaces are resources because they have an URI.
>But resources aren't namespace. Hence, RDDL should be named NDL.

I think this part of the debate is caused by a simple confusion... some 
people are assuming that in "Resource Directory Description Language" the 
word "resource" refers to the namespace being described. I understand the 
intention to be that it refers to the resources which might be associated 
with that namespace.

-- 
Cheers,
John

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