Re: [topicmaps-comment] topicmaps.org namespace,and ISO 13250 XTM ( Re: referring to a topic from outside a TM )

[Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>]

Steve

> For whatever it may be worth, I agree with what you're
> saying here.

I'm glad to read that

> Even if there's no applicable authority, we can still
> improve the situation a lot, and I don't think it will
> be very difficult to do it.
> 
> I suggest we propose a message that will be shown to
> people who arrive at the website.  This message can be
> extremely simple.  If anyone objects to anything in it,
> change it until nobody objects to it, and then submit
> it to the current webmaster (somebody at OASIS, right?)
> over the signatures of the owner, the technical host,
> and the editor.  Once that's done, and if we have done
> it right, we can forget about it.  

Makes sense to me.

> Let me be more specific.  Basically, I think what we
> need to do is to insert an on-arrival page at
> www.topicmaps.org that says, 
> 
>   "Everything's still here, unchanged since Moses
>   descended from Sinai, but you might want to look in
>   the following places for the following things
>   instead, since the materials at this site are
>   becoming increasingly obsolescent as the ISO and
>   OASIS processes move forward.
> 
>   [insert a list of links here] 
> 
>   Click *here* to enter this site anyway."
> 
> Does that make sense?

Definitely - although maybe we should forget Moses ... ;-)

Let's make such a proposal next week in Seattle to interested parties.

Bernard