RE: What is at the end of the namespace?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@ebuilt.com]
> Sent: 20 November, 2001 00:52
> To: Stickler Patrick (NRC/Tampere)
> Cc: a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk; www-talk@w3.org; uri@w3.org
> Subject: Re: What is at the end of the namespace?
> 
> 
> > > Yes, you can.  It is just an identifier.  A variable.  A 
> > > mathematical symbol
> > > described by a sequence of characters in a syntax defined 
> by the first
> > > part of that string leading up to the colon character.
> > 
> > Why have any syntax, since it's so opaque, so meaningless?!
> 
> Because it is a normative reference for syntax within a hundred other
> Internet protocols.
> 
> ....Roy
> 

Apologies for not including a "sarcasm" emoticon to my question.

I was not seriously expecting an answer...

Patrick