- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:35:17 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, www-tag@w3.org, dino@w3.org
On Jun 28, 2006, at 16:49, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >> >> I was just starting to work through the new XBL draft [1] and >> noticed: >> >> "The namespace of all the XBL elements and XBL global attributes >> must be: >> data:,520e273a-62ad-4528-bb1e-9652bda76d62 " >> >> I suspect there may be some pre-W3C history to this, but the choice >> doesn't seem consistent with the TAG's emerging consensus that >> providing >> retrievable representations for namespaces is a good thing [2]. >> Anyone >> know more about this and/or have an opinion as to whether the TAG >> should >> comment on this draft? Thanks. > > That's just a temporary namespace while we wait for W3C's namespace > policy > to stop requiring namespace names to contain pseudo-random numbers. By which you mean 2006? As pseudo-random goes, it wouldn't pass many tests for randomness, changing once a year. Why not move to http://www.w3.org/2006/xbl now? Tim > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E ) > \._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _ > \ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'-- > (,_..'`-.;.'
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