Re: Banning relative - No real damage?

• From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
• Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 17:11:46 -0700
• To: xml-uri@w3.org
• Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000606171144.00f60678@pop.intergate.ca>

TimBL writes:

>Larry focusses the group with his question, "Are there any practical
>considerations left 
...
>If we can establish that no one has come forward with a specific
>example which causes such a problem, then give that the imaginary
>problem cases are quite obscure, one would conclude that banning
>(in some way) relative URI-references for namesapces would
>be practical and wise.  

This should come as no surprise, but I'm entirely in agreement.
It's not repeat NOT too late to do this, and the bad consequences
of not doing it are immensely worse than the consequences of doing it.

Do I smell a faint odor of consensus drifting through the underbrush?
 -Tim

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