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At 12:05 2001 01 02 -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote: >Besides the other ideas I posted, I thought up "Namespace Gloss" or >"Resource Gloss". > >I don't like "* Discovery Directory" since the "discovery" seems >redundant given the "directory". Looks like just a way to toss in a >buzzword now that DISCO is back in vogue, with new cousin UDDI. > >Other ideas: "Resource Charter", "Resource Summary", "Resource Outlay", >"Namespace Resource Directory" (has the requisite three words). Since this thing is directing one to a bunch of potentially interesting and related resources, "resource directory" seems the most natural to me (I can take or leave "discovery"). I hesitate to include "namespace" in the title of this thing because, as a resource discovery mechanism, it's useful regardless how you get to it, and you needn't get to it just from a namespace name. In fact, the mechanism we're talking about needn't have anything to do with a namespace--see all the previously referenced discussion about packaging and manifests and such. Even though many of us are in agreement that such a directory is a very useful thing to have at the end of a namespace URI, it seems a shame to develop such a useful thing and then restrict it (even in name) to only that one function. paul
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