Re: Collect Proposed wordings (Was: Can everyone be happy?)

> I would propose that if David is really serious about these thoughts then
> he comes up with a proposal for how to change the namespace spec to not
> use URIs but to use Java names. Having two discussions interleaved doesn't
> lead to any progress.

It wasn't me that suggested Java package names. It has been commented
by many members of the original group that other naming schemes than
URI were considered, including something along the lines of the java
system. URIs were chosen, we were told, so that anyone could easily
generate a unique namespace name (that is, a name not used for any
other namespace) even if they didn't have  a registered domain name, so
long as they had some connection to the internet and some URL that
they `controlled' (and thus could use as a namespace name).

Probably I should do a search of the xml-dev archives for postings
that discuss this but I'm off line at present.


David

Received on Saturday, 24 June 2000 10:38:52 UTC