Aaron Swartz wrote:
Do you plan to keep this domain renewed indefinitely, and keep using
web.resource.org for Creative Commons?
resource.org was, of course renewed.
I was talking about the future, not the past. All I could determine from
whois was that it appeared to be at risk of expiring within less than a
year. Since Swoogle reports web.resource.org as underpinning 6.77% of
all SW/RDF docs in its index, it seemed worth nudging the various
responsible parties. My email wasn't meant as a criticism, just a
friendly nudge since it's easy for these tasks and roles to get tangled up.
If Carl was no longer interested
in it, I'd be happy to pick it up. I do believe there's an email from
him in the record promising to delegate web.resource.org to us in
perpetuity. I don't know what CC plans to do about future namespaces
but changing old ones seems to be a bad idea. I'm happy to answer more
specific questions, but your email was kind of vague.
Hope the above makes things clearer. Basically, please - between you,
somehow - do something that gives the wider community confidence that
the domain name underpinning CC URIs won't go back into the great
melting pot in the sky. I was pretty sure it's all in hand, ... but
thought it worth the risk of annoying you all.
FWIW I quite agree re changing namespace URIs. It really causes a lot of
hassle for consumer apps, so is only worth doing when there is a
substantial alteration in usage/meaning.
cheers,
Dan
