- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:02:54 -0400
- To: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 08:25 -0400, Ed Summers wrote: > . . . . I think > positioning httpRange-14 as a MUST instead of a SHOULD or MAY made a > lot of sense to get the LOD experiment rolling. It got me personally > thinking about the issue of identity in a practical way as I built web > applications, that I probably wouldn't otherwise have otherwise done. > But it would've been easier if grappling with it was optional, and > there were practical examples of where it is useful, instead of having > it be an issue of dogma. Please note that Jonathan Rees has provided an excellent, very compelling example of where it is useful -- or inversely where it causes harm if it isn't used -- in the Creative Commons licensing use case in "Interoperability of referential uses of hashless URIs": http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2011/09/referential-use.html (See the section called "The Conflict".) -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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