[Outages-discussion] [outages] w3.org dtd files really slow? MOVED

[Carsten Bormann]

> If they're not supposed to need to be resolved, why in the name of $DEITY
> did they put them in the DNS namespace?  

They often actually *can* be resolved, but this is meant to be done rarely, at design/compile time, not for every instance of processing one of the referencing documents.

DNS has been used as a scheme of name allocation a lot (e.g., for Java module names).  
For some reason, people don't fetch a document each time a Java class is instantiated...

> They need to read Don Norman's 
> POET, on "affordances" (and their converse).

In many countries electrical sockets are round, but that doesn't mean you should put your finger in there.  Stove tops "afford" sitting on them, windows jumping out of, ...  Just don't do that.

Grüße, Carsten