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RE: Access XML

• To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@g...>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Access XML
• From: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@c...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:20:29 -0800

> A namespace name is supposed to be globally unique (at least 
> if you use it
> in public documents). If you use a URI scheme without IETF 
> registration,
> there's no guarantee whatsoever that the namespace name 
> indeed *is* globally
> unique.
> 
> Julian

The same can be said of URLs, which are unregistered, and collisions could
foreseeably happen in domains that are very large. Should every domain
holder establish a local registry?   

Not to sound like a broken record, or anything...

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