RE: SKOS dodges the identity crisis?

As a believer in not trying to reengineer stuff that is not broken ..
I also agree that it would be good to encourage publishers of terms in
controlled vocabularies to use a direct non-fragmenting URI. ..

 However, if a publisher did not employ this exemplary approach (to
protect their investment?) then (of course) an indirect URI must be used.
Thus for pragmatic purposes I  encourage the use of indirect identifiers
as an architectural approach.

<quote who="Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com">

>> I suggest you follow Dublin Core's exemplary lead and use
>> URIs without fragment identifiers to identify your terms.
>> You'll be in very good company, and such an approach is
>> fully compatible with the PR version of AWWW and every
>> semantic web spec produced by the W3C to date.
>
> To be more specific, and more accurate regarding my
> original meaning, I suggest that you use 'http:' URIs
> without fragment identifiers to identify your terms.

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