Re: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt

["Tim Bray" <tbray at textuality.com>]

On Feb 18, 2008 10:09 AM, Lisa Dusseault <lisa at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> What do we know about the W3 experience hosting namespace URIs with actual
> documents at the URIs?  I've been hearing rumours lately about something
> like this causing expensive levels of traffic, but I can't recall the
> details.

Yeah, it's true and it's potentially a problem.  In the case of the
W3C it's not XML namespace URIs, it's XML DTD system identifiers in
the <!DOCTYPE of HTML files... certain moronic software authors, for
reasons best known to themselves, issue a GET on the stupid thing
(which is *large*) every time they process an HTML instance.    I
haven't heard reports of this happening on XML namespace names though.
 -Tim