- From: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
- Date: 10 Jul 2003 10:10:31 -0400
- To: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:22, Graham Klyne wrote: > I agree that equality of URIs is well understood (enough for most purposes). > > At risk of (re)stating the obvious: I think we should not conflate > equality of *identifiers* (URIs) with equality of the *resources* that they > identify, unless such conflation is to be stated explicitly as part of the > design. Yep. Completely agree.... > My view is that, according to the URI specification, given two different > URIs we simply do not know whether or not they identify the same resource. Exactly! The only mild exception is that you compare the two URIs after you've done the _standard_ normalization steps available. Then if you determine that the character sequences are indeed the same then you simply have one single URI instead of two.... -MM
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