- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:41:16 -0700
- To: <msabin@interx.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> Here's another analogy. If I show you a photograph of the Eiffel > Tower and ask you "What's that?", then I think that either of these > two answers would be acceptable, > * It's the Eiffel Tower. > * It's a photograph of the Eiffel Tower. This example doesn't apply. A URI is an *identifier*, a much more appropriate comparison would be with "a word". More like, if you showed me a picture and asked "What's a 'tower'?". A URI's entire purpose in life is to identify something. I'll admit that ambiguity exists even in real-world *identifiers* -- for example, when I say "bad", I might mean "good". But considering that words are supposed to mean things, most people just use a default meaning, and crafty word usage requires disambiguation.
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