- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 21:51:19 -0500
- To: James Tauber <JTauber@bowstreet.com>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
James Tauber wrote: > > > > In my opinion, the best solution would be to remove the confusing > > > http:// from the namespace name. > > > > That would be a good suggestion if we didn't intend to make > > definitive material about our schema available on demand. > > But if one did NOT intend to make such material available, would it not be > useful for them to use a URI scheme that shared the simplicity of identifier > generation provided by the http scheme but without the implication of > retrievability via HTTP? Yes... as I say, I think mid: works nicely for this. The resulting identifiers are not quite as mnemonic, but they're easy to generate. Oh... I think I neglected to provide references when I mentioned mid: before... http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes#mid > This was the essence of the "hname" URI schema proposal independently made > by Paul Prescod and myself during the xhtml namespaces debate. Pointer? I wonder if mid: covers the uses intended for hname. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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