- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:04:37 +0100
- To: "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "RDF Logic" <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
> > I don't see the problem. > > The problem is that URI schemes are named in a > centralized manner, Yes, the process for acceptance and IETF registration is rather tortuous. Then again, on the other hand, there aren't many resources that cannot be identified with any of the currect URI schemes, so in practise if someone had the time to register a good new scheme, it would probably be worth it. The fact that it is so difficult to get accepance for a new URI scheme is good because they should not be created on whim: they should only be made if there is some recognized need for them. Still, this should not discourage creators of good schemes from registering them, IMHO. > I'm contemplating this process for one such scheme and I > am not encouraged. TANN? I was going to register the "address:" URI scheme [1], but on contemplation I didn't have the time or patience, so I know what you mean. > If the theory really is irrelevant to real systems, then it's not the > relevant theory! :-) > There seem to be different levels of theoretical > rigor needed for different kinds of work. Agreed. > [...] my three options seem to match the ways humans > approach this problem, so I'm not optimistic that there > is something better. Oops; I wasn't implying that there is anything currently better, only that there could have been if the situation had have been more carefully planned in the past. > > Erm... how many processors do you know of that derference > > the RDF namespace to gain an insight into how RDF works? > > None, but I believe some people want that as on option for at > least validation-like functionality. That's quite interesting. Of course, this leads to format problems: what if I want to validate using N3? Personally, I think that schemas for primitives are only for demonstration: anything useful hard-codes these primitives to make it work. Would it really make much difference if the RDF namespace was written in XHTML? I doubt it, especially as the namespaces it currently uses are out of date... [1] http://infomesh.net/2001/03/address/ -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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