Re: [semanticweb] Purl.org offline?

Toby A Inkster said the following on 2008-10-16 01:24:
>
>> 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
>
The resolution of httpRange-14 says that 'If an "http" resource responds
to a GET request with a 2xx response, then the resource identified by
that URI is an information resource;',  assuming that rdf:Property and
information resource the casino-site operator could make all
rdf-document using dc:title to collapse as contradictions by placing a
document at that URI.

cheers,
reto