Re: Responding to criticism. (was Re: PaceCollectionSyntax)

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Ezra Cooper wrote:

> > I'd very much like to avoid specifying a query language if we 
> > possibly can. -Tim
>
> Is that because you want to serve collections statically? Or because 
> you literally don't want to specify such a language?

Primarily the latter.  It would be nice to avoid infringing on 
designers' URI namespaces, and the problem is so yawningly open-ended 
that it feels like a slippery slope.  I also feel static serving is a 
strong nice-to-have. -Tim