- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:05:12 -0400
- To: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
- cc: xml-uri@w3.org
>This is true, but no longer the whole story, I suggest. In a previous >message I wrote: > >>I think that TimBL and DanC believe that a common (if not the only) >>mechanism for finding metadata about a namespace will be to dereference >>the namespace URI. (If I'm misrepresenting them, I'm sorry, and I hope >>they'll clarify their position). > >Neither of them posted to disagree with this, so I still assume that this >is their position. They'd have to answer this... but even if that turns out to be true (and it's been pointed out that there are many other ways to get from a namespace to its metadata, most of them more versitile than simply dereferencing the name) that's a question of how namespaces may be used in the future, _not_ of the behavior of the namespace itself. I don't think it's necessary or appropriate to advise folks on dereferencability at this time. And I think the guideline you're proposing is, in fact, met by the (unstated?) assumption that people are generally going to use URIs within spaces that they "own", since that's the only way they can reliably achieve uniqueness anyway. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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