Re: Comments for PER-MathML2-20030804

Hello, David,

>  > www.openmath.org should be openmath.example.org (openmath.org may be a
>>  known now but the example domains are the only domains IANA reserves)
>
>I believe you commented on this last time as well, bt this isn't a
>"generic example" It is a real example. OpenMath and MathML are
>very closely related (and historically linked) The examples are
>specificaly examples showing how to relate MathML to OpenMath
>Content Dictionaries, they wouldn't really make sense with example.org
>URIs.

Yes, I see that for instance a MathML example points to a definitionURL
for N. MathML is however a W3C spec and if MathML needs OpenMath
definitions OpenMath could be quoted and cited as a normative
reference. I should point out that W3C has a persistence policy [1].
Non-resolving openmath.example.org URIs are my suggestion based on a
single occasion of a domain change causing harm that no one could have
predicted which is now part of an un-modifiable W3C resource. W3C
Publication Rules [2] allow any validating example at this time so of
course MathML is free to use openmath.org.

Hope that explains. :-)

[1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Persistence
[2] http://www.w3.org/2003/05/27-pubrules.html
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Received on Saturday, 6 September 2003 18:28:01 UTC