Re: How could RDDL be distributed ?

[Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:23:40PM +1100, James Robertson wrote:
> At 15:04 17/01/2001, Michael Mealling wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:19:56PM +1100, James Robertson wrote:
> > > At 03:19 17/01/2001, Michael Mealling wrote:
> > > > > 1. Allow for local overriding of authoritative resources.
> > > >
> > > >IMHO that's the c15n problem space...
> > >
> > > Damn these shortenings of words. They are
> > > causing way too much o9n.
> > >
> > > A few extra letters would kill you?
> >
> >;-) You type it as much as I have and it will get annoying. Plus its
> >what the IETF BOF group was called so its easier to find by using that
> >acronym. But the point is valid. I'll try and spell it out
> >more often. ;-)
> 
> I think you missed my subtle (?) point:
> 
> WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR ?!?

Ah... Sorry. Thought you'd caught the start of the thread...

c15n is short for Contextualization. It's a concept whereby
a URI is resolved based on some locally defined set of context.
In academic research it could be based on research appropriate
copies (edition 1 vs edition 2, photograph vs digitization, etc).
In the cases we have been talking about here it means taking
some URI and resolving it based on your localized concept of
what that URI identifies (i.e. you think you have a better XML
Schema than the owner of the original, you have some locally
cached copy, you don't trust the holder of the URI to not change
the bit of XML underneath you, etc)....

-MM

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