- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:48:40 +0000
- To: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Paul Prescod wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote: > > This is a problem if you expect to be able to use namespace > > identifiers to retrieve namespace documents. On retrieval RFC > > 2396/deployed network infrastructure equivalences are in play, so > > if you don't want the namespace documents of distinct namespaces to > > collide, you have to choose your namespace identifiers so that as > > well as being non- equivalent wrt the Namespaces REC, they're also > > non-equivalent wrt RFC 2396/deployed network infrastructure. > > How is this difficult? Choosing the identifiers isn't particularly difficult. What's problematic is the tension between, * The Namespaces REC which says that identifiers which differ on a character by character basis are always distinct. versus, * RFC 2396/deployed network infrastructure which says that some identifiers which differ on a character by character basis are equivalent. Cheers, Miles
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