On 2002-01-25 18:13, "ext Tim Kindberg" <timothy@hpl.hp.com> wrote: > At 12:25 PM 1/25/02 +0200, Patrick Stickler wrote: > >> Names may only be valid or interpretable within a given context, but >> I do not agree that the same name in different contexts can correspond >> to different "things". > > So /etc/passwd is guaranteed to be the same file on all UNIX computers? So > we have to give up the independence of bindings of names like 192.168.0.*? > My apologies, I was thinking URI and wrote "name". My argument was that URIs are global names with consistent meaning. A URI cannot mean different things in different contexts, as the intended scope of URIs is to be globally consistent. Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.comReceived on Monday, 28 January 2002 06:50:22 GMT
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