- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:35:03 -0700
- To: david.durand@ingenta.com, uri@w3.org
> The problem is that it is legal (if confusing) for me to use both > HTTP:/example.org/namespace and http:/example.org:80/namespace to represent > entirely different namespaces, as long as I have rights to > assign names for example.org. I could, for instance, place the year of > definition of the namespace in the port field. This shouldn't be legal, and if it is, it's a problem with the namespace recommendation, which should be updated to explicitly disallow using two different strings for namespace names that correspond to URIs that are, by the URI normalization rules, equivalent. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
Received on Wednesday, 7 April 2004 23:35:49 UTC