On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Thomas Baker wrote:
> Point #1 is actually an idea we have discussed for a long time -- some
> implementors need to cite stable standards in software contracts.
Surely this is a red-herring? (Possibly one from the herring festival at
the Helsinki workshop :-)). The 'stable standard' you refer to is
effectively an 'application profile' - the application of a particular set
of metadata terms at a particular point in time. Such a 'standard' will
be defined in a document (an example is the DCMES 1.1 document), or
possibly in some machine readable way... it has nothing to do with the
namespace URI.
When someone says "this software conforms to DCMES 1.1" they should
provide the URI for a document (human and/or machine readable) that
defines DCMES 1.1, *not* a namespace URI.
Andy
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