RE: "Guidelines for the Use of XML in IETF Protocols"

• From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
• Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:31:18 -0700
• To: "'Tim Berners-Lee'" <timbl@w3.org>, "'www-tag'" <www-tag@w3.org>
• Cc: <ietf-xml-use@imc.org>
• Message-ID: <000801c1df5d$dd802540$50a52099@larrypad>

(suggest followup to ietf-xml-use@imc.org)

> FYI.  I note that this note encourages/mandates   urn:s
> instead of http: URIs for namespaces in direct contradiction
> with the current draft by Tim Bray.
> 

Please look carefully: the recommendation narrowly applies
only to IETF standards-track documents; given recent discussions
about (the difficulty of establishing) IETF policy on maintenance
of various web resources, using the urn:ietf: namespace for
such seemed prudent.

What HTTP URI would you suggest instead?

Larry

Received on Monday, 8 April 2002 20:33:44 UTC