- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:34:30 +0100
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 11:40 PM 7/23/01 -0700, pat hayes wrote:
>>On Monday, July 23, 2001, at 09:26 PM, pat hayes wrote:
>>
>>>It amounts to a global unique-name assumption, which is obviously not
>>>correct on the Web, since it isnt even correct on many web pages. It may
>>>be correct (in an ideal world) for URL's, but it cannot be assumed for all URIs
>>
>>Do you mean URNs, not URLs?
>
>No, I meant URL's, which I take to mean a URI that locates something. I'm
>not sure about URN's: I don't see any global unique-name assumption (ie
>the assumption that everything has a unique name, so different names must
>denote distinct things) in the URN specs anywhere, but maybe I just havnt
>found it.
I think that's one of the great unresolved issues of URIs in general. I
think either way is sustainable and results in the same models, but
different folks seem to think differently.
#g
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