[tei-council] TEI Conformance

[Sebastian Rahtz]

James Cummings wrote:
> Another option is for a 3fold system:
>
> - TEI namespace for TEI elements and their equivalents
> - TEI Extension namespace for elements being 'incubated' as possible contenders
> to be TEI elements submitted by members/SIGs/etc As part of a concerted and
> documented proposal
> - MyPersonalNamespace -- user defined namespaces for specific new elements which
> they don't think should become part of TEI
>   
The incubation idea is quite attractive, if we could
provide an infrastructure for managing it without
relying on any one in particular to spend regular
time. It _could_ be just a wiki page where people register a name
and attach an ODD. Then "the community" could
fight over it.


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