- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:38:08 +0200
- To: "Jacek Kopecky" <jacek.kopecky@deri.org>, tim.glover@bt.com
- Cc: tauberer@for.net, semantic-web@w3.org
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:20:52 +0200, Jacek Kopecky <jacek.kopecky@deri.org> wrote: > So I cannot choose to use http://w3.org/ to mean my car, and I don't > think anything on the web gives anybody the opposite idea. Nonsense. Of course you can. There is a social convention that you don't, and nothing more. I recently heard someone suggest that having 2 namespaces made RDF too difficult (there are things that make it hard, but I can't see that as one). I pointed out that at the risk of causing major unhappiness, he could simply describe new terms in the original RDF namespace. There is no reason it wouldn't work, the first time. But my answer is that making a system work requires a bit of cooperation, and a bit of learning, in general. So there is absolutely no assurance that someone won't try to overload your URI to mean something completely different. But there is a social convention that people don't do it, which is generally respected. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile chaals@opera.com hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk Web dreams are free: http://www.opera.com/download
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