- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:10:19 -0500
- To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: "'Paul Cotton'" <pcotton@microsoft.com>, www-tag@w3.org, "'Paul Grosso'" <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, roy.fielding@day.com
First, it is not that they want it not to be dereferenceable, they want dereferencability to be separated from nameing. That is, the system by which a name is formally assigned and managed is not tightly coupled to the system of assigning names to locations. See Public Identifiers. Second, it reduces confusion where names in browser displays are instanced as controls. Don't shock the monkey. len From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com] And I do acknowledge that there are people who seem to want namespace names that are guaranteed *not* to be dereferencable, and some URN namespace is probably a way to achieve that goal; but I've never been able to understand why this would ever be a sensible goal.
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