Re: #rdfms-difference-between-ID-and-about

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, R.V.Guha wrote:

> This whole distinction between ID and about is trouble
> waiting to happen.
>
> RDF may be embedded in messages (like SOAP) that might not have
> a url of any sort. In this case, the distinction between id and about,
> and
> the proposal to use "#" which is based on the idea of anchors all lead
> to nothing but trouble.

There are other issues w.r.t. '#' (like # refs being context-dependent),
but what is the "idea of anchors" here?

Dan