• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: namespace reprise
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:18:46 -0700
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• Thread-topic: namespace reprise

Namespaces in XML is only DNS based if you stick to the "URIs are HTTP
URLs with a fancier name". URNs do not have to be DNS based. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo; Simon St.Laurent; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  namespace reprise
> 
> 
> The DNS basis asserts authority and can be construed 
> to assert ownership.  This can have the effect of robbing 
> the commons by privatizing the ownership of concepts. 
> It will concentrate power into fewer and fewer hands 
> without oversight.  It is a Republican's wet dream 
> and the ultimate third worlder's nightmare.
> 
> Content must be neutral with respect to the container. 
> 
> len
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...]
> 
> I'd be more interested in someone who can point out the the 
> difficulty caused by namespaces in XML that don't boil down 
> to philosophical or aesthetic arguments. 
> 

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