"tag" scheme rationale

Sandro Hawke wrote to the Semantic-Web discussion list
(<mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>) on 9 October 2005 in “Re: New Intro to
RDF” (<mid:20051009201139.121944EECF@homer.w3.org>,
<http://www.w3.org/mid/20051009201139.121944EECF@homer.w3.org>):

> The point of tag: URIs is to allow you to identify things when you
> don't want to allow people to "follow their nose", because you are not
> willing to maintain a web presence.

It’s hardly my place to tell you, Sandro, in your role as co-author of
the specification of the “tag” URI scheme, the point of “tag” URIs, but
the point that you give casts an aspersion on tag minters by stating the
case in backwards fashion. It may be that one is unwilling to maintain a
Web presence even though one would very much like to allow people to
metaphorically follow their nose. There are barriers between many people
and the maintenance of a proper Web presence.

-- 
Discussion may want to jump to the URI Interest Group (<mailto:uri@w3.org>).

Etan Wexler.

Received on Saturday, 15 October 2005 07:20:08 UTC