- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:45:03 -0500
- To: "pat hayes" <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, "Stefan Decker" <stefan@db.stanford.edu>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Stephan, > > Probably you are right. But let us first establish the necessity of having > global IDs. > Then we can think about how they can be engineered and > what useful things we can do with them. > This has a strong resemblence to the whole XML namespace debate, e.g. if an XML namespace name is just a unique identifier for a namespace, why does it need to be a URI? and if a URI does it need to be dereferenced and if a namespace uri is dereferenced what should it resolve to? Of course this is a topic close to my own heart (http://www.rddl.org). -Jonathan
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