Re: Fwd:Proposal on IETF using URNs for XML namespaces...

At 11:07 AM 11/27/00 -0500, Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote:
>Forwarded Text ----
>>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-iana-xmlns-registry-00.
txt
>>...
>>This document seeks to standardize this practice by creating an IANA
>>maintained registry of XML elements so that document authors and
>>implementors have a well maintained and authoritative location for their
>>XML elements. As part of this standard, the IANA will both house the public
>>representation of the document and assign it a Uniform Resource Name that
>>can be used as the URI in any URI based identification components of XML.

There's already been some discussion on XML-Dev:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200011/threads.html#00467

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
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Received on Monday, 27 November 2000 14:16:47 UTC