Re: homonym URIs (Re: What if an URI also is a URL)

> So there is a gap there to be filled. Just declaring that a URI is a
> Universal Identifier doesn't seem to me to hack it. On the one hand,

Couldn't agree more. Once again, shall we? ;)

    URI != Universal Resource Identifier

but rather

    URI = "Uniform" Resource Identifier

Big difference. URI spans multiple namespaces - not just the HTTP URI
namespace. It's just a prescription for encoding identifiers in a uniform
manner. Therefore it's more than reasonable to assume that there may exist
identifiers from different namespaces (and minted by different naming
authorities) with the same referent - but all packaged according to the URI
prescription.

Tony

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