Overloaded URIs must GO!

[David Megginson]

Didier PH Martin writes:

 > Just imagine a second what would be your reaction if I would come
 > to you and says that I cannot create a XML document because there
 > is no official DTD for the document. A second, just imagine that.

It's not the same.  

Imagine, instead, that you are on a LAN with static IP addresses and
haven't had one assigned to your box.  You call the sysadmin, and she
says "don't worry, just make one up -- if TCP/IP suddenly stops
working, you can increment the address and try again until
everything's OK."

 > If you want a name space just register it to IANA (in case you want
 > to make it official). And you don't need to put a "x-". If you
 > choose hname for your "NID" and if its not already registered than
 > that's it you have this NID for all your URNs.

It certainly sounds easy enough -- as I mentioned, once there are
well-defined NIDs available, they will be useful for XML namespaces.

Where is the list of NIDs registered with IANA so far?


Thanks, and all the best,


David

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