- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:24:38 -0500 (EST)
- To: jacek@systinet.com (Jacek Kopecky)
- Cc: henrikn@microsoft.com (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen), xml-dist-app@w3.org, chris.ferris@sun.com
> neither did I, but I don't think this needs to be said > explicitly. IMHO "MUST dereference" means just "MUST get the > data" and the "in any way suitable" is implied by the way web > works. 8-) Heh, well I know that we all know that, but there's a lot of people who don't. Just ask some of the RSS 0.91 folks who were using a validating XML processor that would always invoke a GET on the RSS schema URL, which went 404 one day earlier this year and broke a whole lot of stuff. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/263 MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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