- From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:02:02 -0500 (EST)
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:45:38 -0800 From: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak) | >So in this draft, no public IDs. It should be voted that *every person* | >on the No side would change their vote to Yes if there was an agreed-on | >resolution mechanism for PUBLIC identifiers. It should be noted that all the NO votes were "no, not ready for this particular draft, we need to agree on a resolution mechanism before we can include public identifiers." There is general agreement that XML will have public identifiers, but there has to be general agreement on a resolution mechanism before it shows up in the spec. XML 1.0 has a long way to go before it achieves "recommended" status. This feature just isn't cooked yet. Since some (Most?) of us who want PUBLIC IDs strongly feel that a _mandated_ mechanism would be a serious mistake, this argument is a non-argument. I do know from experience that the abstraction of naming is simply not attractive to some people. No amount of arguing seems to change positions either. At any rate, I think we will need to keep going here, at least to get to the point that we can put an URN in XML and have it be legal. Tha eliminates the use of URLs as a fallback resolution, but that's life. Or we may yet do the right thing... -- David
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