Re: In defence of 404 ...

Le lundi 07 août 2006 à 10:26 -0500, Dan Connolly a écrit :
> 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?

Of course not but in our case both DOC1 and DOC2 are published by the
INSEE and I don't see the reason for a single entity to coin different
URIs for the same concept.

Eric 
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