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

[Bernard Vatant]

> * Steven R. Newcomb
> |
> | 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?

LMG
> It makes sense as a stop-gap solution to fix a very embarrassing
> situation, but not as a long-term solution. (I'm not sure which of
> those you and Bernard propose.)

That is only a short-term solution in my mind.

> topicmaps.org (the domain) is a prime piece of internet real estate,
> and it should not be left to rot. Instead, it should become a
> clearing-house of topic map-related information. Even if it were just
> limited to describing the activities of TopicMaps.Org (the confusingly
> named members section to-be) that would be much better than just
> letting it stale.

We also could let TopicMaps.Org where it is, as an historical organization name,
and flag the to-be OASIS Member Section under a different name "OASIS Topic Maps" and
domain
www.oasis-open.org/topicmaps

Things would be more clear that way.

Bernard