[CL] Fwd: CLIF names such as cl:imports are awkward/misleading to XML developers

[Pat Hayes]

Regarding the 'defect report' about colons in names, here's the 
'external comment' I was referring to, in case it is useful for the 
ISO process (?):

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>Subject: CLIF names such as cl:imports are awkward/misleading to XML
>	developers
>From: Dan Connolly <connolly at w3.org>
>To: Pat Hayes <phayes at ihmc.us>
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:22:23 -0500
>
>I see that CLIF reserves the name cl:imports .
>
>The widely deployed convention in XML and nearby technologies
>is that names of the form prefix:localname abbreviations
>where the prefix: bound to a URI, such
>as http://example/vocabulary . In these so-called QNames,
>the prefix is arbitrary, prefix1:abc and prefix2:abc
>are equivalent expressions, provided prefix1: and prefix2:
>are bound to the same URI.
>
>Reserving the exact name cl:imports is going to clash
>with the experience of XML developers. I suggest
>taking out the colon.
>
>--
>Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
>gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541  0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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Pat
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