RE: IANA and HTTP URLs, Dogfooding, was: Link: relation registry and 303

Many XML editors try to resolve XML namespaces to an XML schema. Many communities pick XML namespaces based on domains and URIs they control where they can put a meaningful description of it (via 200). This is common expectation at this point.

The only valid approach here is pragmatism.

EHL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:18 AM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: www-tag@w3.org WG; Mark Nottingham; Lisa Dusseault
> Subject: RE: IANA and HTTP URLs, Dogfooding, was: Link: relation
> registry and 303
>
>
> > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
> >
> > Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:
> > >> From: Julian Reschke
> > >> [ . . . ]
> > >> why is an XML namespace an information resource . . .?
> > >
> > > It isn't.  See
> > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/nsDocuments/#div.xmlwebNSDoc
> > >
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments.html#XMLSpecs
> > > ...
> >
> > That's the reason I have "dogfooding" in the subject line.
> >
> > Why ask IANA for something the W3C doesn't do itself? See:
> >
> > > > wget http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
> > > --2009-01-30 18:05:52--  http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
> > > Resolving www.w3.org... 128.30.52.54, 128.30.52.166,
> > 128.30.52.168, ...
> > > Connecting to www.w3.org|128.30.52.54|:80... connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
> > > Location: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/ [following]
> > > --2009-01-30 18:05:52--  http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/
> > > Connecting to www.w3.org|128.30.52.54|:80... connected.
> > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > > Length: 2710 (2.6K) [text/html]
> > > Saving to: `index.html'
> > >
> > > 100%[======================================>] 2,710
> > --.-K/s   in 0s
> > >
> > > 2009-01-30 18:05:52 (17.1 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [2710/2710]
>
> I assume that's a bug, but someone from w3.org would have to say for
> sure.
>
>
>
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