Re: Irony heaped on irony

John Aldridge scripsit:

> 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).

I don't believe that they believe that.  It is perfectly consistent to
discover facts about a namespace by some means other than accessing its
URI directly.  In particular, RDF can provide information indirectly -- but only
about something that is labeled with a URI.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
	Yes, I know the message date is bogus.  I can't help it.
		--me, on far too many occasions

Received on Friday, 26 May 2000 08:33:51 UTC