Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

Michael Mealling wrote:

> > However, it makes it impossible to distinguish between the resource which is
> > the namespace and the resource which is a document or a mailbox or a telnet
> > interaction.
> 
> Then don't do that....

They have different natural properties, however.

 
> > My approach assigns a distinct URI to every namespace by
> > distinguishing between the namespace *name* (a string which happens to have
> > the syntax of a URI *reference*) and the URI which identifies the namespace,
> > instead of demanding that they be the same.
> 
> By sticking "data:," in front of it? Nothing about the 'data' scheme
> makes this any different...

Au contraire.  The "data:" scheme is the only one for which it is *known*
that if two URIs are different, the resources are different too.

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Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 17:20:13 UTC