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- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:14:09 -0600
If for no other reason than the stability of
contracting based on public naming, at some
point the conflation of name and address must
stop. It is a bad idea to make systemic
requirements a basis for public contracting. That
a PUBLIC id cannot be resolved over the web
is not a reason to deprecate them. They
are a name, not an address.
Both standards and implementations exist to
enable PUBLIC and SYSTEM identifiers to
be deployed in a sensible manner. We've
been fussing over this since XML was an
unnamed project and even before then when
catalogs were a hot topic on comp-text-sgml.
Surely the issues are well-understood and
should have been resolved five years ago.
Why aren't they?
Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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