- From: Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 07:36:26 +0100
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: danny666@virgilio.it, Phil Dawes <pdawes@users.sourceforge.net>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi Jeremy, On Monday, April 5, 2004, 3:00:35 PM, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Thus something like a dated version of a W3C tech report which really does > not change I am happy with having a date in the URL. But something like the > RDF namespace, the 1999 in there is just plain confusing if you ask me. Isn't the point that the date provides a context for what follows. For example, I minted the URI http://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/08/rdft in August 2003. At that point in time the characters rdft stood for RDF Templates as asserted by the owner of www.semanticplanet.com. I can safely reuse that character sequence in the future without changing the meaning of the original URI by including the date of the new meaning. If I had chosen http://www.semanticplanet.com/rdft then that character sequence is unavailable for all time, precluding me from releasing the Roach, Dab and Flounder Taxonomy with a simple URI. Ian -- http://internetalchemy.org | http://purl.org/NET/iand
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