Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

Michael Mealling wrote:

> My point exactly! So if you want to use that URI as your namespace name
> then whether or not its internal scheme is about mailboxes doesn't
> matter. Its a perfectly valid name for a namespace (sans the persistence
> requirement).

However, it makes it impossible to distinguish between the resource which is
the namespace and the resource which is a document or a mailbox or a telnet
interaction.  My approach assigns a distinct URI to every namespace by
distinguishing between the namespace *name* (a string which happens to have
the syntax of a URI *reference*) and the URI which identifies the namespace,
instead of demanding that they be the same.

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