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Re: Just say 'mu' to namespace URIs

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• Subject: Re: Just say 'mu' to namespace URIs
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:49:04 -0400
• In-reply-to: <ta8uav4gflhq80tkrg30ffb8sj7tlc3lr3@4...> (Arjun Ray'smessage of "Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:17:15 +0000")
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/ Arjun Ray <aray@n...> was heard to say:
| | but: a) there's still no consensus on what dereferencing a namespace URI 
| | should produce; 
|
| I'm now hopelessly lost in the twists and turns of URI metaphysics.  Why
| is a URI necessarily "dereferenceable"?

It's not necessarily. But some feel it should be. Unfortunately, of
those that feel it should be, some think an HTML document should be
returned, some think an XML Schema should be returned, some think an
RDF Schema should be returned, and the rest think other things should
be returned.

- From here, it's a short walk to the morass of your choice. Among the
two most obvious: URI equivalence, content negotiation, and fragment
identifier syntax depends on MIME type. Take your pick.

FWIW, I'm a fan of URNs and I hold the position that names and
addresses are different things. It's a minority opinion, perhaps, in
some circles, but I hold it none the less.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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