RE: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:10 PM
> To: Julian Reschke; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on
> httpRange-14)
>
>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
> >...
> >
> > So what do you do when you have chosen a
> not-on-the-web-identifier for your
> > XML namespace and later find out that actually you *do* want
> representations
> > for it to be on the web?
>
> Exactly. By this time next year there may well be a REC-RDDL. All of the
>   http namespaces that the W3C has created will point to RDDL files
> which will give all kinds of useful information (both human readable and
> machine readable) for those URIs. Whereas all of those
> urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office URIs will never be
> dereferencable. It is at least possible that this will prevent those

Why "never"? (except for the problem that Microsoft is using unregistered
URN schemes...)

> ...

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