On Monday 07 August 2006 16:26, Dan Connolly wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:59 +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote: > > 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. > > Do you have any serious expectation that you will get it? i.e. > that you can somehow stop other parties from coining URIs that > refer to France? Actually YES. For things like countries, currencies, units, etc. I expect ISO or the UN or W3C to define "The URI" that we all use. There's little point to the "Semantic Web" at all if everyone just does whatever they want ignoring everyone else so nothing is commonly understood. I do expect my Semantic Web travel agents to know and agree on the the difference between Paris, Texas and Paris, France. Cheers, David -- Mobile +44 7788 561308 UK +44 2072217307 Skype +1 336 283 0606Received on Monday, 7 August 2006 15:55:57 GMT
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