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Re: In defence of 404 ...

From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:59:26 +0200
Message-ID: <44D7554E.6040502@mondeca.com>
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
CC: semantic-web@w3.org, Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>, Franck Cotton <franck.cotton@insee.fr>

Dan
> Ah... I misread your point. Indeed, in the general case,
> lots of documents may discuss the same resource, and none
> of them is authoritative. If DOC1#T1 and DOC2#T1 both
> refer to France, there is no web architecture mechanism
> for determining which is authoritative.
>   
OK. But I don't want to have DOC1#T1 *and* DOC2#T1 as two distinct URIs 
defining France. I want one URI to define France. 
> The point I was making is there are authoritative descriptions
> corresponding to URIs. Whatever whatever http responses
> the owner of DOC1#T1 gives are authoritative descriptions
> of DOC1#T1.
>   
Sure enough
> And yes, things change over time.
>   
I'm glad we agree on that :-)
> [...]
>   
>>> It seems very unnatural to me to use anything other than a single
>>> static file for the case of an ontology with just a few dozen terms.
>>> Maybe a handful of content-negotiated static files. But not more than
>>> that.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Just a few dozen terms, yes. But with semantics not so "static" as you 
>> would like them to be. geo:Region is not rdfs:subClassOf - The real 
>> world apologizes for being so messy, changing and unstable :-) .
>>     
>
> It's reasonably straightforward to change the contents of a static
> file on a web server, no?
>
>   
Sure it is. But the point is that I don't want to change the file. I 
want to publish a new one about the same entities, without deprecating 
the old one.

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