How did TimBL's speech at Python 10 go yesterday?

[A.M. Kuchling]

In article <mailman.1013125874.23020.python-list at python.org>, 
	Michael Chermside wrote:
> I agree, and apparently so does TimBL. He was careful to point out that 
> you don't actually go out to the web each time to get module, rather 
> that the actual code is "cached" locally and there needs to be something 

Note that there's a distinction between using a URI as a unique
identifier and actually downloading something from it.  In the XML
Namespaces spec, URIs are used in things like <element
xmlns:rng="http://xml.mems-exchange.org/schema/">.  That URI can't be
dereferenced (the hostname doesn't even exist) but it's never
retrieved, so that doesn't matter.  I think TBL's suggestion was more
along the lines of having unique identifiers for modules and versions,
and not primarily importing via URL.

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