Tim PantonDec 17, 2022

Does your org own your domain name and trademark?

If not - make a fallback plan now!

I'm watching in horror as the W3C tries to retain control over its domain w3.org and the w3c trademark, which to date has been held on its behalf by MIT.

MIT's lawyers seem to me to have spotted an opportunity to make some money by gouging the not-for-profit standards body.

Show threadTim PantonDec 17, 2022

In case anyone was wondering why this matters:

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" is why.

(Update - TIL - Modern apps don’t actually fetch these references. So the next bit is wrong for most important cases)

If www.w3.org breaks - then _all_ those xml schema all over the web and in apps break too.

So it isn't a little not-for-profit corp matter.
It's an #infosec #ddos matter .

XHTML namespace

Show threadThe DoctorDec 17, 2022
@steely_glint How feasible would it be to make a local copy of that file, self host it, and change the URL? Pre-coffee it seems pretty straightforward.
Show threadTim PantonDec 17, 2022
@drwho I am (as I discovered today) shockingly out of date on xml.
But my understanding is that in some cases the url is what matters, in others the content is important. If you know which camp your app falls into, and it is the second, then yes, that would work, indeed it is considered best practice.
Show threadThe Doctor
@steely_glint Hmm. Makes me wonder how badly web browsers have fucked this seemingly elementary thing up.
Dec 18, 2022 at 2:17amWeb