discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Lucas Gonze <lgonze AT panix.com>]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Kevin Marks wrote:
> Tantek just put together a formal spec for this:
>
> http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense
>
> comments and improvements welcome.

Thinking in a blue sky mode, my preference would be for the 'license' tag 
to be a URN.  EG:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"; 
rel="http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense";>cc by 
2.0</a>

This manages to sit on the line in between the lower case semantic web and 
the upper case Semantic Web.  I realize that it's a non-standard approach, 
but I think this approach is likely to become very common because of the 
benefits:

* no need to negotiate over bits of text like 'license'

* self-documenting -- a developer can learn about a rel value by going to 
the URN.

* can automatically check for typos by attempting to dereference the URN.

- Lucas