• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• To: Brian Smith <brian@b...>
• Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:13:26 +0200

Brian Smith wrote:
> Dave Cridland wrote:
>> 1) I'm not mad keen on namespaces pointing to privately owned 
>> domain names. You have a different one in the examples as is 
>> specified in section 1.2, by the way.
> 
> What namespace URI namespace should IETF specifications use?
> urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:<name>?
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3553
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3688

That's one possible choice.

Another one is to keep using HTTP URIs, but to move them to a more 
neutral location (purl.org has been used in the past, so has www.w3.org).

BR, Julian

• References:
  • Metalink XML Download Description Format (draft-bryan-metalink-01)
    • From: "Anthony Bryan" <anthonybryan@g...>