Digital material accessible on the Web has names
Those names get their meaning in two ways, mostly:
So, in either case, ownership matters
And the relevant standards say for many URI schemes (past, present, and, we should anticipat, future)
So it is at least commonly supposed
It would appear, then, that any threat to permanent ownership of domain names
So many different constituencies have an interest in mitigating such threats
Most of those constituencies are represented here today
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) TAG (Technical Architecture Group) is charged with stewardship of the architecture of the Web
So we care about the properties of URIs
And Jonathan and I, in the context of our TAG membership, have been struggling with the whole permanence thing for some years now
So we asked people to come talk about this
No good deed goes unpunished
Our goal for this workshop is simple:
That means, we think, identifying dimensions, and points on those dimensions
Candidate dimensions:
This is will be a workshop
The chairs will be ruthless in keeping speakers to their allotted times in the morning.
We'll be running two projectors in the morning:
At the moment we envisage the outcome as something like a matrix,
In the first instance the organisers will fill in the wiki in real time during the talks, based on
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