Re: What is at the end of the namespace? (and where to use RDDL) from Roy T. Fielding on 2001-11-19 (uri@w3.org from November 2001)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@ebuilt.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:53:03 -0800
To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
Cc: uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <20011119125303.G1384@waka.ebuilt.net>

> It is not true that all URIs are identifiers in any useful semantic sense. 

A long time ago, on this very same list (albeit hosted elsewhere), it was
decided by consensus that URI would not attempt to contain semantics in
any useful sense (a.k.a., metadata).  That is, after all, why things like
URC and URA and RDF were created.

....Roy

Received on Monday, 19 November 2001 15:57:14 UTC