Re: Proposal: new top level domain '.urn' alleviates all need for urn: URIs

Michael Mealling wrote:


> I don't know. You're using a definition of equality drawn from OWL and
> not from RFC 2396. I don't use OWL and thus never intended for its
> definition of 'equality' to be used in any comments I made. When I talk
> about URIs _universally_ I make it a point to use only terms that are
> universal for all possible applications, past, present and future. That
> means the only definition of equality that's available to me is the one
> found in RFC 2396.

Note that the RFC2396bis redraft-in-progress has, in its section 6, a 
rather more nuanced and thorough discussion of the notion of 
"equivalence" of URIs and resources.  (Disclosure: I wrote the first 
draft of the section).

http://www.apache.org/~fielding/uri/rev-2002/rfc2396bis.html

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Cheers, Tim Bray
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