- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:55:27 -0500
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > At Cafe Con Leche, Elliotte Rusty Harold reports: > >the W3C announced in Montreal that they have officially > >decided not to decide what to do about relative namespace > >URIs for the time being (though that decision doesn;t seem > >to have propagated to the main mailing lists yet). They will > >deprecate them, that is recommend that no one use them, but > >they will not forbid their use, at least not yet; and they > >will not venture to say what they do or do not mean or how > >they are or are not to be compared. This issue may be revisted > >in the future. (from http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/) > > Is there some kind of official statement from the W3C explaining this, Real Soon Now. Somebody threw a spanner in the works by stealing Michael's laptop. (and various other things threw various other spanners in the works before that...) > or > even a somewhat more comprensive explanation of what this means for future > development? You'll have to judge for yourself whether the outcome is sufficiently comprehensive. If you find it insufficient, you might encourage us to persue... an XML-URI Activity Proposal for discussion Dan Connolly (Tue, Jul 11 2000) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jul/0025.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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