Re: SAX: Naming and Packaging (question 10 of 10)

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 08:44:44

At 19:48 06/01/98 -0800, Jon Bosak wrote:
[...]
>
>I reserved xml.org for exactly the kind of public use being discussed
>here and have no other plans for it. The main idea was to prevent
>someone from doing dumb things with the name; I had a vague idea that
>it might be useful for standard DTDs or a root URN domain for XLinks
>or something like that. The domain does not correspond to any real
>server at the moment; there isn't even a default email account. But
>if it's felt to be useful as a reserved piece of the DNS name space, I
>would be happy to dedicate it to the use of the XML developer
>community.

This is a lovely offer, Jon - and it seems ideal and appropriate for the
current problem. I am also really impressed by you foresight in thinking
about XML 6 years ago and this would be a fitting tribute.

P.

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