- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:21:08 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote: >... >> >>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...) I don't believe that universal URN registration schemes will be widely deployed. I've been wrong before, but even if I am, wouldn't it be funny if people flee away from HTTP to schemes that "do not imply dereference" and then sometime in the future they imply dereference. Paul Prescod
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