RE: [xml-dev] DNS based URIs that don't imply access method

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

The confusion has spread far and wide even amongst people building XML
tools and technologies.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hunter [mailto:dhunter@viafone.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org '
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] DNS based URIs that don't imply access method
> 
> 
> True, but I think we've heard from numerous people on this 
> list who would testify that the confusion caused by using 
> URIs for namespace names extends well beyond the borders of 
> XML-DEV.  (I would argue that the people on this list are the 
> ones best qualified to understand this stuff.  If we don't, 
> or argue about it incessantly, what chance does the average 
> developer have to understand it?)
> 
> And again, if my previous post didn't make it clear, there 
> must be an easier way to provide uniqueness.  Proponents of 
> URIs like to say that "it's easier than generating GUIDs", as 
> if there's no middle ground, but my point in bringing up Java 
> package names is that I don't think GUIDs and URIs are the 
> only two alternatives available to us...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Ayers
> To: David Hunter; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Sent: 7/25/2002 12:06 PM
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] DNS based URIs that don't imply access method
> 
> >The costs (mass confusion, thousands upon thousands of emails to
> XML-DEV,
> >thousands of person-hours burned on discussing the issue ad 
> infinitum)
> just
> >seem to vastly outweigh the benefits (easier uniqueness) of using
> certain
> >types of URI (HTTP URLs being the most common, and most ill-fitted, 
> >example, IMHO).
> 
> Costs that only apply to xml-dev subscribers don't really add 
> much weight in the general scheme of things. Easier 
> uniqueness is a big benefit all round.
> 
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