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• Subject: Re: RDF and the new releases
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:42:34 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200211151751.MAA24409@m...>

jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
>Ahem.  I strongly object to your use of the word "coerce".  The
>intention of Bob duCharme and I was to _persuade_, a very different
>thing.

I have no doubt about your motivations, John, but the history of XML,
RDF, and URIs does feel, well, a bit coercive...

In context, I don't think Shelley was criticizing your article in any
event.


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urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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