Re: new semantics initiative

At 04:00 PM 6/13/02 +0100, Brian McBride wrote:
>At 12:07 12/06/2002 -0500, patrick hayes wrote:
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>>What is wrong with URI inspection?
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>Questions:
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>   o what uri prefix should be used?  Is it ok to insist on an http: prefix?

IMO:  Pick one.  It doesn't matter.

I think (if we go this route) URI inspection will be a short-term hack and 
a future rev of RDF should provide a proper syntactic framework.

>   o how will names in this namespace be allocated?

I suggest:  by documentation in a W3C recommendation-track publication (or 
document intended for that track).  (I.e. use of this "hack" should be very 
constrained;  the bar should be high.)

#g


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Graham Klyne
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Received on Friday, 14 June 2002 03:37:29 UTC