[rdfweb-dev] how to say "I Made This!"

[Graham Klyne]

At 10:30 22/07/03 +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 21:03, Libby Miller wrote:
> > > Do you have a reference (DC somewhere?) for "making it proper"?
> > >
> > > <link rel="schema.foaf" href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1" />
> > >
> > > ("schema.foaf" looks strange, though again presumably there's a 
> reason for
> > > this)
> > >
>
>It's defined in RFC2731. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
>
>As I make such a fuss about standards normally, it seems probably
>sensible that we should support this one.
>
>However, if we didn't, and omitted the schema.foaf definition
>altogether, I very much doubt the universe would care.

Without disagreeing with the rest of what you say, I note that the RFC you 
cite is *informational* which means it's just what the series acronym 
means, a "request for comments", and not a standard of any kind.

#g


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