- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:41:28 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
I think I had mailer problems. So this is a re-transmission. -- David Tim's invitation for manifestoes was too good to pass up, for the manifestly inclined... The W3C has an ongoing URN process, that is now (finally) bearing fruit. There are IETF drafts in place for syntax and an initial resolution mechanism. FPIs will be "grandfathered" into the URN namespace, so that every FPI will have an equivalent URN, and if we get the resolutin services working within the framework, they will be resolvable over the web. So, my new suggestion for FPIs is that we not worry about the special SGMl syntax for them, but correct the String "URL" in the XML document to read "URI". A URI is a Universal Resource Identifier (URL _or_ URN). The IETF is recasting specs to refer to URI's instead of URLs anyway, in anticipation of URNs becoming real. Now we can have FPIs if we want, with no special syntax requirements, and with no additional work for implementors who implement URN resolution services in their applications. Easy, no? -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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