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Is Dedicated Hosting for Critical DTDs Necessary?

Posted by Cliff on from the might-the-W3C-be-interested dept.

pcause asks: "Recently there was a glitch, when someone at Netscape took down a page that had an important DTD (for RSS), used by many applications and services. This got me thinking that many or all of the important DTDs that software and commerce depend on are hosted at various commercial entities. Is this a sane way to build an XML based Internet infrastructure? Companies come and go all of the time; this means that the storage and availability of those DTDs is in constant jeopardy. It strikes me that we need an infrastructure akin to the root server structure to hold the key DTDs that are used throughout the industry. What organization would be the likely custodian of such data, and what would be the best way to insure such an infrastructure stays funded?"

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  1. "Is this a sane way to build an XML Internet" by TodMinuit · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sane XML -- Good one!!!

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