Re: [xml-dev] Excellent IETF BCP on XML

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Miles Sabin <>
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2002-11-22T21:31:18Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Excellent IETF BCP on XML
Simon St.Laurent wrote,
> Questioning URIs right now seems to get few new answers.  I've
> concluded that URI references are severely limited abbreviations,
> while the opacity of URIs is useful in some contexts but a liability
> in others.
>
> Given "core principles" like this:
<snip/>

Or findings like this,

  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/get7

section 3 "Dereferencing URIs is safe" without mentioning that "safe" is 
used there in the sense of RFC 2616, rather than rather than in the 
more general sense that the dereferencer won't get hurt.

Cheers,


Miles