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What has changed? All the "always resolves" means is that if the http: endowed URI is handed to a resolver, it will resolve. What gets returned may be caca, but it will resolve. So no amount of pretending about intent changes the facts; it just confuses people. Make it the responsibility of systems and systems developers who use URIs for namespace values where those values will resolve because they are syntactically identical to URLs to do something smart instead of saying it is the user's problem. A more contentious issue is that they don't have a unique referent and therefore, are troublesome for RDF. len From: Miles Sabin [mailto:miles@m...] Show me a spec that says "Nothing will ever change, *ever*" and I'll show you hubris. The only reasonable expectation that anyone has is that things that were there yesterday might be gone tomorrow, and that new things'll come along to replace them. That's as true for URI schemes as it is for resources.
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