- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:33:15 -0600
- To: www-tag@w3.org
I just discovered... <definitions name="GoogleSearch" targetNamespace="urn:GoogleSearch"> -- http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl urn:GoogleSearch isn't registered. http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces I'm pretty sure google would be embarrassed to use an HTTP URI with an unregistered DNS domain... why aren't they embarrassed to use an unregistered URN namespace identifier? I think the fact that the lookup mechanisms for DNS names, and hence http/ftp URIs, are ubiquitous creates a useful pressure to not use bogus names. The pressure doesn't seem to be there for URN namespaces, and the only way I can see that pressure increasing is if URNs duplicate the functionality of http... or at least if URNs get connected to *some* communications protocol that causes bogus names to get noticed routinely. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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