RE: Duplication of provisional URI namespace tokens in 2717/8-bis

They clearly are related, but they are different requirements and
distinct mechanisms for coping with them can be elaborated.

As currently written, 2717/18 needlessly sacrifices one requirement to
guard against danger to the other.

stu 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@w3.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:33 PM
To: Weibel,Stu
Cc: uri@w3.org
Subject: RE: Duplication of provisional URI namespace tokens in
2717/8-bis

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:04 -0500, Weibel,Stu wrote:
[...]
> Larry Masinter raises a legitimate concern about land-grab speculation

> of URI scheme names.  This concern deserves attention, but must be 
> divorced from the functional requirement of unique scheme tokens in 
> the URI space.

???

They're intimately connected. I don't think it's possible nor advisable,
let alone mandatory, to separate them.

The land-grab phenomenon results from scarcity.
Uniqueness creates the scarcity.

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