> Having names for fundamental terms based on the DNS system is a > weakness. What will we do if purl.org gets taken over by a casino > site? > Will we argue that the terms keep their meaning even if the casino > site > says something else There is no law that says that if a tool wants to determine the meaning of <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> it must perform an HTTP request for that URI, even though that is common practice right now. It would be just as valid an approach for it to query a database, or to retrieve the meaning from a web service. http://meaningof.example/?as-of=2008&uri=http://purl.org/dc/terms/title -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 23:25:55 GMT
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