> Uche Ogbuji <> wrote:
> | [Arjun Ray:]
>
> |> When it comes to naming things, there seems to be two schools of thought,
> |> platonist naming by provenance and instrumental naming by purpose.
> |
> | Humph! I see far more than these 2 "schools of thought".
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't make it obvious enough that I was talking about names
> for markup.
>
> |> Universal names are a chimera, a maguffin.
> |
> | Yes. So what does this have to do with RDF?
>
> Nothing, except that RDF was the source of the "we need universal names"
> angst in XML.
>
> |> The whole business of needing universal names or whatever by day before
> |> yesterday originated in the murky depths of what became the RDF activity.
>
> | I never heard this from the RDF activity. Do you have a citation?
>
> The specific URLs, no, because the www-xml-sig archive is in permanent
> deepfreeze at lists.w3.org. But since you insist, here are two excerpts:
I do appreciate your effort.
> 1)
> Resent-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
> Resent-Message-Id: <>
> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:00:33 -0700
> From: (Jon Bosak)
> Message-Id: <>
> To:
> Subject: Name spaces
>
> This message begins a discussion of name spaces intended to serve as
> input to the XML WG in its formation of a position paper to be
> completed at the WG meeting on August 22 and submitted to the W3C RDF
> WG in time for an RDF meeting on August 27. The position thus arrived
> at will form the basis for a name space specification that will
> eventually be included in XML 1.1. [...]
>
> 2)
> Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:54:38 -0500 (EST)
> Resent-Message-Id: <>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 10:53:10 -0800
> From: (Jon Bosak)
> Message-Id: <>
> To:
> Subject: Name space requirements for RDF
>
> [I accidentally posted this to the WG rather than the SIG. Since we
> are now formally turning our attention to name spaces, further
> discussion of this should take place in the SIG.]
>
> Ralph Swick informs me that he has published the most recent draft of
> name space requirements from the RDF Model and Syntax WG as
>
> http://www.w3.org/RDF/Group/1998/02/NOTE-rdf-ns-reqs-0209
So it looks as if this last link is the pertinent citation.
Of course as I try to follow it, I get an HTTP log-in box and then
"Sorry, Unauthorized.
The URL you are requesting requires proper authentication."
I swear to the goddess that the W3C makes me want to spit up a flood,
sometimes.
--
Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
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Basic XML and RDF techniques for knowledge management, Part 7 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think12.html
Keeping pace with James Clark - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-jclark.html
Python and XML development using 4Suite, Part 3: 4RDF - http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/xml-onlinecourse-bytitle/8A1EA5A2CF4621C386256BBB006F4CEC
