• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:02:27 -0500
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Mike Champion wrote:


> I'm not clear on how AFs handle the problem that namespaces address.  


The idea is that there is no need to have globally unique names,
because AFs explain how to map *your* locally unique names to
*my* locally unique names.

Globally unique names are now a fact of life, however; in a sense,
the battle was won when the domainists beat the bangists.
Part of my AF:NG effort is to allow mappings between my names
and your names, whether or not they are globally unique.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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