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

• From: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:18:11 +0100
• To: xml-uri@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000605171648.034a6a00@mailhost>

At 10:47 05/06/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>John Aldridge wrote:
>
> > (a) Only the creator of the namespace (i.e. the person with the ability to
> > place things at the namespace URI) should be able to make descriptive
> > statements about the namespace.
>
>That is a problem of trust, the solution to which is well-understood:
>signatures.
>
> > (b) A single formulation of that descriptive metadata is appropriate to
> > support all the various processing applications which the world will apply
> > to documents using names from the namespace.
>
>That is a problem, indeed.

Just to clarify -- (a) and (b) are things I do _not_ believe.
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Cheers,
John

Received on Monday, 5 June 2000 12:18:18 UTC