Just require URLs

[Murray Maloney]

This is certainly how I feel about it.
Dave Hollander seems to agree -- we are at the
XML Schema meeting in Ann Arbor.

At 11:06 AM 6/15/99 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote:
>I would like to add my endorsement to W. Eliot Kimber's mail of
>1999-06-01T021:53 titled "Re: Just require URLs" and which is apparently not
>in the archives.  
>
>I'd like to add a parenthetical comment that I believe supports the thrust
>of his argument: Eliot wrote "If the true intent of the namespace mechanism
>is that the URI *is* the namespace (in the sense defined above), then they
>have to *disallow* resolution of the URI..." Of course, specifications are
>not people, so do not have intent literally, but as one of the two editors
>of the specification I can speak for my intent in the wording of the
>specification:  The URI identifies the namespace. That is, the specification
>very clearly does not require that a URI be resolvable, but neither does it
>forbid resolution.  The URI is an identifier; what other characteristics it
>may have are not part of the namespaces specification, including whether it
>is resolvable directly or can be used as part of process that ultimately
>resolves to a resource.
>
>Best wishes,
>Andrew Layman
>
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