Spinning off interesting heresies (was Re: How are semantics named?)

At 01:34 PM 6/12/00 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote:
>>Maybe this discussion deserves a spin-off list?
>
>Please!

So where do we take it?

TimBL's latest message [1] suggests that he has little sympathy for a
mapping of identifiers and semantics that uses something other than the
existing URI and HTTP architectures, so I don't know that the W3C will want
to host that spin-off.  

www-annotation@w3.org might be a good place for this discussion, though
reading the archives suggests that list is the wrong place.  Similarly,
while the W3C Collaborative Web Annotation Project looks interesting, it
doesn't really resemble what I thought Tim Bray was talking about.  It
seems to be talking about annotating document instances, while I think Tim
Bray is talking about describing information types, not instances.

I'm concerned that we've once again conflated asking for information about
a URI with asking for information about a namespace identified by a URI.

I'm a little disappointed by TimBL's response, as this was the first time
in a long while that the list content had shifted from annoying but
necessary to genuinely interesting and/or exciting for me...

[1] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-uri/2000Jun/0529.html

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