- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:52:03 -0500
- To: "'John Boyer'" <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
John Boyer wrote: ... Since you can't have two different collections of names that are identical, changing the collection of names should imply the obligation to change the URI too. The W3C pub rules have supported this interpretation when it says that namespaces should not be changed in this way in order to "give a specification the necessary stability." -- You can argue that this ought be the case, and this is a reasonable argument. Unfortunately, the fact is that the W3C process has not followed this argument. For example the recent set of RDF specs change the names in the RDF namespace without changing the URIref of the RDF namespace. From a practical point of view, W3C namespaces are found to contain a variable collection of names with respect to time. Jonathan
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