RE: TB16 Re: Comments on arch doc draft

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Berners-Lee [mailto:timbl@w3.org] 
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:03 AM
> To: Tim Bray; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: TB16 Re: Comments on arch doc draft
> 
> 
> The only example I can think of where they are not
> allowed (xmlns) was shown to be a problem at our Hawaii
> tag face-face, when most of the GET URI for a query was
> a namespace URI which could have been dramatically
> shortened if made relative to the URI of the query itself!
> 

I must have missed this having only recently joined the WWW-TAG list but
since when was GETting namespace names considered to be acceptable
practice that should be encouraged? Note, I am not agreeing or
disagreeing with the policy mentioned at 

	http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xppa

but instead just touching on a semi-related issue. 

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