- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:44:29 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org, timothy@hpl.hp.com, sandro@w3.org, abcoates@londonmarketsystems.com, m_director_iptc@dial.pipex.com, daniel.rivers-moore@rivcom.com
Larry Masinter scripsit: > Yes, there are two separate namespaces that both use > dates and named "name minters", but urn:newsml actually > identify resources, and the nature of the resource identified > can be determined by asking the Provider identified with > the ProviderId, (Identified at the date specified by the DateId, provided that Provider is still extant.) > while with 'tag', there is no authority to ask, and all of the semantics > are inferred from the context of use. So if I ask a tag minter at example.com "What did you mean by <tag:example.com, 2005:whatever>?", it's perfectly in order for the tag minter to reply "I have no clue"? This is a social, not a protocol, question. -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that jcowan@reutershealth.com hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.reutershealth.com the leaders would stay home and let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, Declaration of Independence
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