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From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard@r...] On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:13:40PM -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > It would seem to me that such a registry should > be part of the metadata of a site (see Tim Bray's > recent contribution to TAG on sites) and not a > separate database as such. That way interoperation > falls out of the standard web architecture and > possibly, the semantic web. > That's not different than Google :-) Not much, no. It would depend on the assertions that are associated to the registration of the namespace. Joe gave some examples of that in the standard he referenced. How normative or informative it is would be the rub, for sure, but it has the feel of a metadata system for a site. Hmm... URIs are not URLs but namespace names are URIs. Would I want to register namespace names outside their context of use as disambiguators in a document? URIs are, as predicted, on their way to becoming legal names or trademarks. Not surprising, really, but a registry of such has to be aware of any assertions implied explicitly or implicitly by the act of registration including that there may be none beyond uniqueness. Depends on the job, I guess. I can see where this would veer off toward RDDL/RDF or even topic maps. It's just so tempting ... :-) len
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