Re: Using URIs to identify non-information resources

* Sandro Hawke
| 
| My understanding is the TAG is resolved on httpRange-14, although
| the issues page is lagging.  Norm talks about the situation here:
| 
|    http://norman.walsh.name/2005/06/19/httpRange-14

Somehow this doesn't feel very firm. If you resolve a URI and it
returns 303 you know that the URI might identify something (what you
got back, or what it described, but you can't tell which), whereas if
it doesn't return 303 it definitely identifies the thing you got back.

The above is not terribly clear, but it gets even worse. In an RDF
graph of interesting size[1] there will be such a number of URIs that
trying to dereference all of them is going to take so long that there
is no way it can be worth the effort. Then what?

Either this question has no interesting answer (in which case it seems
pointless to come up with an answer nobody has time to verify) or it
has an interesting answer (in which case it needs to be verifiable).

[1] It seems fair to assume that the Semantic Web will constitute a
graph of interesting size.

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Received on Saturday, 13 August 2005 02:23:08 UTC