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RE: quarantining namespaces

• To: 'Paul Prescod' <paul@p...>
• Subject: RE: quarantining namespaces
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:39:26 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

I agree with that.  But your use and the use 
of your neighbor may be in conflict.  You say 
your use governs, and as far as the spec says, 
it does.  But practice is, the browser turns 
it blue and makes it clickable.  

I believe that it is good practice when using a URL as a URI that one 
put something where it points for the sake of 
politeness, or to use URN and be explicit in 
that document (a URN only has one semantic, to 
name, so I consider it a document) exactly 
what is meant.   The problem comes of overloading 
and leaving only contextual clues as to intent. 

If it is intended only to name:  name it.
If it is a name with an addressable referent, address it.
If it is or can be both, address it (leave a RDDL or 
RDF file there).  

Leaving it dangling because in the future one might 
want to change it is somewhat like letting your 
2 year old child into the neighbor's yard without diapers 
because you don't want to change them soon; 
or the neighbor letting the Rottweiler into yours because 
he may want to walk the dog later.  

Avoid the conflict.  Leash the puppies.

This should be common practice: a constantly 
evolving protocol for getting along with the rest 
of the people in the neighborhood.

len


From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...]

In my world-view all URLs are URIs. Sometimes we use them as identifiers
and sometimes as locations. I also believe that URIs that can be used as
both are better than URIs that can be used as only one or the other.
HTTP URIs have that property.

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