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Uche Ogbuji wrote: > I also agree 100%, and would love to see this clarification in the namespace > rec. However, I don't think it will eliminate the whole "deref" issue with > namespaces. After all, the current spec uses weasel words (as I and others > heatedly and repeatedly pointed out in the great debate that yielded RDDL) in > trying to avoid the semantic black hole: they say the URI is not meant to be > dereferenced. Erm, pardon the pedantry, but it doesn't say that at all. It says "It is not a goal that it be directly usable for retrieval of a schema (if any exists)." Few sentences have delivered as high an angst-per-word ratio; it's the standards-organization equivalent of the 2nd amendment to the US constitution. -Tim
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