Re: Language = Namespace. was: How namespace names might be used

Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

> - a namesapce is identified by a URI.  (That is, if any resource is
> identified by URI u, and a namespace is identified by URI u, then that
> resource *is* that namespace)

To pursue the question of what you mean by that: are all URIs equally suitable
for that purpose, assuming only that the URI is chosen so that one can be
reasonably confident of its uniqueness?   If not, how would you distinguish the
suitable URIs from the unsuitable ones?  There certainly does not seem to be
any agreement as to what if anything should be at the resource identified by
the URI, if indeed such a resource exists at all.

Paul Abrahams

Received on Monday, 19 June 2000 17:42:31 UTC