Re: Arcs

Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xtm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Murray,

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:36 +1300, Murray Altheim wrote:

<snip>

> It's kind of a boy thing to want to lay claim to semantic territories,
> like planting a little flag on the moon, and I admit to having been
> a boy in the past. Nowadays I'd rather the owners plant their own flags.
> Then everyone can use those identifiers canonically, rather than demand
> that people use *our* namespaces as wrappers for their semantics. That
> would promote usage across all communities.
> 

+1!!!!

I would go a step further and suggest that owners already have their own
flags. 

It is a question of semantic software recognizing owners' flags rather
than training owners to use different flags.

Solutions that rely on adapting people to software are deeply
problematic. 

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick
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