Henry Thompson writes:

> That was part of the compromise.

Stated differently:  you can infer that there were a significant number of 
people involved who strongly took the opposite position from yours, and 
the default you see was in deference to their views of what the community 
needed.  As already noted, it was a long and difficult discussion, with 
strongly held opinions on both sides.  I don't think anyone thought the 
resulting design was particularly appealing, but given the strongly 
divergent opinions about what users needed and/or about how namespaces 
were supposed to be used, the design had the advantage of letting users 
choose.  FWIW:  I tend to sympathize with George's feeling that most users 
do want the qualified idiom, that qualified would have been a better 
default, etc.  Still, it's way too late to reopen it now, and there are 
schemas out in the wild that use both options as far as I know.

Noah

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Florent Georges writes:

> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> Without going into tedious and confidential details about
>> personalities and working group discussions, suffice it to say
>> that the design we have was the only one that included both
>> possibilities which the WG could reach consensus on.
>
>   Yes, but that does not answer the interesting question: why the
> chosen default value ;-)

That was part of the compromise.

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