RE: [xml-dev] Following up ... a "Living without W3C Namespaces" manifesto?

[Peter Hunsberger]
 >I'd go back to my original version of this: strip out name spaces when
 >processing locally since at that point you know the context.  Use
 >namespaces for data exchange since you don't know who will be attempting
 >to associate your data with what...

What does the word "local" mean?

I have a dozen apps that all need to talk to each other. Each created by 
different teams,
some in different locations but *all* within my organisation.

We need a way of handling the problems that avoids artificial and ephemeral
context boundaries such as local and non-local.

Sean