If the URI is meant to be dereferenced, the 'rule' is given force by means
of the inability of anyone but microsoft.com to control the representation
that will be returned. If the URI is not supposed to be dereferenced, then
the rule is just a convention, right? Or am I missing something?
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <>
To: "Tim Bray" <>
Cc: "Joe English" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: URIs, concrete (was Re: [xml-dev] Un-ask the
question)
>.... It's a semantic
> rule that says "Only microsoft.com can allocate URIs with a microsoft.com
> authority part."
