- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:31:43 +0000
- To: "Ennals, Robert" <robert.ennals@intel.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 18:46 +0000, Ennals, Robert wrote: > Then the value of @property is just “x-apple:whatever”. A tool that > wanted to understand a page semantically could either risk the danger > of name clashes and assume that “x-apple” means what it thinks it > does, or it could check for the presence of an xmlns declaration > saying what “x-apple” means. Given that the name "Apple" was recently subject to an enormous lawsuit between Apple Records and Apple Computers, surely this shows precisely why this couldn't work? A registration authority is needed to ensure uniqueness of name. RDF uses URIs, and thus piggybacks on top of a registration authority which has proved itself to be pretty good: the DNS. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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