RE: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Champion, Mike
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:05 AM
> To: 'www-tag@w3.org'
> Subject: RE: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on
> httpRange-14)
>
> ...
> that authority."  Confusion has its cost, and maybe the cost of doing
> something as theoretically pointless and ugly as a "now://" scheme for
> resources that are Not On the Web is lower than the cost of
> explaining "name
> in naming authority" thing over and over and over.
> ...

So what do you do when you have chosen a not-on-the-web-identifier for your
XML namespace and later find out that actually you *do* want representations
for it to be on the web?

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