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Tim Bray wrote: > > Anyhow, I think that Rick is right, that an 80/20 solution here, > file extension and/or content-negotiation, is perfectly OK for > the short term and might turn out to be embarrassingly OK in the > long term, just like that other famous 80/20 solution, the WWW. -T The file extension addresses the issue of multiple resources. The content negotiation addresses the issue of different alternate representations of a single resource. The permanant URLs versus the single namespace one addresses versioning issues and genericity. But content negotiation was not designed to get different forms of things that are different: for example that we can request from the Namespace url application/rdf-schema+xml and text/xml-dtd and application/css This would be a quite novel use of content negotiation that should raise a lot of questions. If this is what Simon was getting at, then he is right that this is not within the Schema WGs perview to change content negotiation like this. But perhaps this is something where it would be useful to broaden the scope of content negotiation, so that it can perform retrieval of different kinds of resources from namespace URI Refs. I don't like it, myself. Just adding a well-known extension to the URI seems a much better approach. Rick Jelliffe
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