Re: Catalog Requirements (resend after 2-day bounce)

[Tony Coates <Tony.Coates@reuters.com>]

>Off topic, but let's think about this, and talk
>more at XML 2000.

Off topic again, I will be there too, and happy to meet up with everyone
attending (including Debbie & Mr Moose).

>It is an attempt not to limit ourselves to URLs, on the assumptions
>that URNs (or other) may yet be practical. Since URN provides still
>another level of indirection here, so we need to limit ourselves
>to URLs?  (Hope not, but real question.)

On the serious side, I certainly want to see URNs dealt with just as much as
URLs.  I think URNs would make good public identifiers, once we get over the
issues of who will be granted namespaces and administer them for the betterment
of the world.

     Cheers,
          Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates
Leader of XML Architecture & Design
Chief Technology Office
Reuters Plc, London.
tony.coates@reuters.com
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