Markus,

There was no technical impediment to using res.tdwg.org.

The fact was that some TDWG subgroup conveners were not satisfied with the original choice of res.tdwg.org. I suppose that the name "res " (which stands for "resources") was not self-evident as they wanted it to be. We brought the issue to the attention of the TDWG Executive Committee which then decided to use rs.tdwg.org instead. It didn't make the domain name more self-evident, but the Executive thought the domain name did not matter that much, so they made the decision to help settle the discussion.

I hope this clarifies the issue a bit.

Regards,

Ricardo

Döring, Markus wrote:

Thanks Ricardo, can you tell us why the domain has changed? Was res. being reserved for something already - maybe REServed?

-- Markus

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: tdwg-tapir-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-tapir-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] Im Auftrag von Ricardo Scachetti Pereira Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juli 2006 14:15 An: roger@hyam.net; tdwg-tapir@lists.tdwg.org Cc: Döring, Markus Betreff: [tdwg-tapir] Re: [Fwd: tdwg namespaces]

Dear Markus and TAPIR folks,

I would like to inform you that the TDWG namespace domain 

has changed to rs.tdwg.org. I believe that now would be the right moment to change it on the TAPIR schema, wouldn't it?

Let me know if you have any problems with this change.

Regards,

Ricardo