On Wednesday 2009-02-11 10:10 -0800, Larry Masinter wrote: > Generally namespaces name vocabularies and not languages that use > those vocabularies; generally, versioning of languages is handled > independently through some other mechanism (e.g., DOCTYPE as per > ISSUE-4, which we will discuss soon although I've put it off), and > generally, reuse of a namespace in a new version of a language is > perfectly appropriate. I would go further than merely saying reuse of a namespace is appropriate. I would say that using a new namespace for the same vocabulary is *inappropriate*, for reasons I described in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Feb/0018.html (So I support your proposal to close the issue.) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:24:16 GMT
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