Ian's question was about what happens when it goes down forever, or gets taken over, intercepted, squatted, spoofed or redirected because of a malicious DNS. I should have known better how to ask it. The browser cache cannot handle these cases. Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Adida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:33 PM To: Kristof Zelechovski Cc: 'Manu Sporny'; whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] RDFa Features Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > I have to repeat Ian's question now: what happens when the server with a > custom vocabulary definition goes down? Does it take a part of the semantic > Web down along with it? If it's a popular vocabulary, it's probably been cached appropriately. If it's an edge-case vocabulary previously unseen, some small # of applications can't look up the meaning of attributes during the downtime. But parsing can still happen, RDF graphs can still be created, etc... A vocab whose host goes down regularly will likely not be used often. Selection of the fittest. -Ben