Re: namespace usage as assertions

I think the confusion was that Dan agreed to "points to" only in the sense
of "identifies" *not* in the sense of "must be able to be dereferenced to
a representation of".

-----Original Message-----
From: Eve L. Maler <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com>
To: xml-uri@w3.org <xml-uri@w3.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: namespace usage as assertions


>At 12:08 PM 6/21/00 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:
>>That's not the case. Every URI, by definition, identifies/points to a
>>resource.
>>URI means "Uniform Resource Identifier"; URIs identify resources.
>>cf RFC2396 for the exact definition.
>
>If you're serious about "points to," then despite your urgings when we did
>the original Namespaces work, we should not have used URIs for namespace
>names because pointing to something was "not a goal."
>
>         Eve
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