Antone Roundy wrote:

On Monday, November 15, 2004, at 11:42 AM, Robert Sayre wrote:

Antone Roundy wrote:

The risk is the opposite of naming collision--multiple names for the same thing.


This is a problem for any format that's extensible in a decentralized manner. There's nothing we can do about it.

There is something we can do about it--we can build a few more values into the initial registry which are likely to get created (though perhaps as URIs rather than, or in addition to, in the registry--leading to duplication). Sure, we won't forestall all duplication, but why not try to exercise a little judgment and deliver an initial spec with things that are likely to come up already built in?


The draft doesn't list a lot of rel values because we couldn't come to consensus on them. There's no reason to get bogged down in this discussion. There's a registry. People will use it.


Robert Sayre



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