- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:17:19 +0000
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> writes:
> [what's this use of URNs for namespaces in IETF work ???]
> targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:pidf:geopriv10
> [from] http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-ietf-geopriv-pidf-lo/
So it turns out this is based on something called the IETF XML
Registry (RFC 3688) [1], which seems to me to interact with various
aspects of Web architecture. It provides for 'registering' assigned
URNs for namespaces, DTDs, W3C XML/RDF Schemas and public identifiers.
It mandates the creation of a server by IANA (not yet in existence, I
don't think), which will serve the definitive definition of the
registered things. It also says that you shouldn't count on the
server to give you DTDs or schema documents . . .
It says nothing whatsoever about versioning. . .
This whole thing makes me quite nervous . . .
ht
[1] http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/rfc3688/
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