- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:25:50 -0700
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Cc: TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>, Silvia Pfieffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Hi guys can I propose this in an MPEG contribution? Would the W3C follow through and formally reserve/define the URI form? On May 12, 2014, at 7:24 , David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > > On May 12, 2014, at 15:43 , Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote: > >> On 12/05/2014 14:16 , David Singer wrote: >>> Actually, you are right, DASH requires it be a URI, so if W3C prefers >>> to use a URL over a URN, even for something that is a name, that is >>> fine. >> >> I will stay well clear of the landmine discussion about whether locators are the naming mechanism or not, but if you think this is an acceptable option please file a bug against HTML (I'm copying Silvia who generally handles media stuff). >> >> We can mint identifiers of the type http://www.w3.org/ns/whatever-name without Director approval, all we need is to say so and add a few HTML documents at the end of those URLs (which I can do easily). If you think that identifiers with another structure would be good I'm just as happy but we need the Director's approval. > > OK, so > > http://www.w3.org/ns/html-track-kind/<a valid value of the kind attribute for an HTML track element> > > would be entirely fine. Maybe the last / should be # ? > > http://www.w3.org/ns/html-track-kind#<a valid value of the kind attribute for an HTML track element> > > or don’t namespaces use #’s? > > >> >> The policy on URL naming assignment between specs is here: >> >> http://www.w3.org/2005/07/13-nsuri > > cool. I think that kinds are not year or spec-version-specific, and likely to stay stable. > > Could this be part of the HTML spec.? > > “When a self-identifying HTML kind value is needed in a context outside HTML, the form http://www.w3.org/ns/html-track-kind/<a valid value of the kind attribute for an HTML track element> may be used.” > > ?? > > >> >> -- >> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon > > David Singer > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc. > David Singer Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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