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

John Aldridge wrote:

> (a) Only the creator of the namespace (i.e. the person with the ability to
> place things at the namespace URI) should be able to make descriptive
> statements about the namespace.

That is a problem of trust, the solution to which is well-understood:
signatures.
 
> (b) A single formulation of that descriptive metadata is appropriate to
> support all the various processing applications which the world will apply
> to documents using names from the namespace.

That is a problem, indeed.

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Received on Monday, 5 June 2000 10:48:12 UTC