Re: ID: draft-ietf-webdav-bind-05

Julian,
	I didn't say "dav:" was a URI, I said it was a URI
_scheme_; see the URI scheme assignments maintained by
IANA I referenced below.  The namespaces used in the bind
draft fall into the DAV: uri scheme if you require
they begin "dav:".
			regards,
				Ted Hardie


At 8:16 PM +0200 6/23/04, Julian Reschke wrote:
>Ted Hardie wrote:
>>
>>At 10:53 PM -0400 6/22/04, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>1.1
>>>  - 'DAV:' is a namespace URI, not a namespace name.
>>
>>
>>I think it might be more accurate to say that dav: is a URI
>>scheme.  See http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.
>>So the following statement in 1.1: "all XML elements defined by this
>>specification use the XML namespace name "DAV:" might be
>>re-written as "The XML namespaces used in this document all
>>use the DAV: uri scheme".
>>
>>Just my personal opinion,
>>             regards,
>>                 Ted Hardie
>
>Ted,
>
>as a matter of fact, "DAV:" isn't a URI at all (as RFC2396 doesn't 
>allow empty scheme-specific parts). Only RFC2396bis will actually 
>make "DAV:" a legal URI.
>
>You're proposed change however is inaccurate -- the specification 
>itself  uses a single namespace, and that namespace has the name 
>"DAV:". So I think there's really nothing that needs to change.
>
>Best regards, Julian
>
>
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