RE: Using URIs to identify non-information resources

(continuation of response)

There are multiple URI schemes. Each scheme defines the
semantics of the scheme. The "http" scheme semantics
starts out with "use the HTTP protocol to connect to
a resource".

If you write "http://thing-described-by.org/" at the
beginning of a URI, you're still talking about the
resource you connect to using the HTTP protocol to
connect to the Internet host whose name is "thing-described-by.org".
There's no way you can attach the level of indirection
directly to the domain name.

Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish,
but it seems like this is another run at "use HTTP URIs
to ground representational assertion terms in the real
world". And I think you need to make the indirection
explicit, either through *, tdb:, separate relation
identifiers, or some other explicit way to distinguish
me from my web page.

Larry
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Received on Monday, 8 August 2005 17:58:18 UTC