- From: Tim Kindberg <timothy@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:33:44 -0700
- To: Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>, Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, uri@w3.org
At 11:19 PM 10/1/2003 -0400, Eric Hellman wrote: >the question to ask is whether "tag:" is *enough* . > >A useful approximation is >info ~= tag + namespace registry I equally assert that there are "definitely" many applications/domains (not to mention minting principals, i.e. users) for which extra registration is not needed. In tag we specifically eschew extra namespace registration, because we want a low barrier to entry for identifier-minting. Jo User already registered when she got herself an email address or domain name and she shouldn't have to go through more of that to identify her stuff. It's not clear that anyone other than big players -- who can afford heavyweight legal defence -- would benefit from "more" registration. Moreover, it's likely that e.g. HP would be able to defend tag:hp.com,2003: legally just as well as they could hp.com. So what would they need extra registration for? Tim Tim Kindberg hewlett-packard laboratories filton road stoke gifford bristol bs34 8qz uk purl.org/net/TimKindberg timothy@hpl.hp.com voice +44 (0)117 312 9920 fax ++44 (0)117 312 8003
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