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At 06:35 PM 1/16/99 -0800, Terry Allen wrote: >Now, RFC 2396 says (from the Abstract): ... [a URI identifies a resource, which can be anything] >So the "namespace" URI must identify a resource, Well, gosh, but what if it doesn't? The original design clearly is intended to support the identification of resources, but we're using it in a different way. >Me, myself, I think this is a bogus use of URIs. What you are >really using is DNS, and you don't need to use fake URIs to do so; >cf. the IOTP spec. That's a good point - clearly the DNS is a key part of this. But you might want more than one namespace per domain, so what we need is a DNS address plus some more identifying stuff; a bill that the URI seems to fill, so why re-invent it. Also, it leaves open the possibility that at some future point we figure out something that could usefully serve as the resource being pointed to. For those of you who (like me) had no idea what IOTP is, check out http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?vc=docid_9-62053.html -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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