- From: Eve L. Maler <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:51:46 -0400
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
At 12:08 PM 6/21/00 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:
>That's not the case. Every URI, by definition, identifies/points to a
>resource.
>URI means "Uniform Resource Identifier"; URIs identify resources.
>cf RFC2396 for the exact definition.
If you're serious about "points to," then despite your urgings when we did
the original Namespaces work, we should not have used URIs for namespace
names because pointing to something was "not a goal."
Eve
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