Re: Last call announcement for XPointer

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 03:14 am, Ron Daniel wrote:
> Thank you for your comments on the XPointer Framework Last Call draft,
> which are archived at:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2002JulSep/
> 0013.html
> ...
> > Is the "barename" word being dropped in favor of
> > "Shorthand Pointer"? It's mentioned in the status,
> > but once that changes, it'll be hard to figure out
> > what's become of barenames.
>
> Yes, 'barename' is history.

XML Signature specifications make a lot of use of this term. Is there any 
specific motivation/reason it is being deprecated?