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I love PURLs, but the namespace attribute smells. It’s way too arbitrary.

What’s the point of com.something.other? Why are we using dot notation when everything else is kebab case?

Not sure I parse... do you mind to elaborate?

Is this about Maven "groupid" mapped to a namespace? "com.foo.bar" is Maven's own invention and notation.... in most cases we are just trying to adopt the ecosystem convention to minimize fictions.

Ah, I see now. Thanks for elaborating on that. I’m not accustomed to Maven but it makes sense that other languages and frameworks have different naming conventions.

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