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RE: [httpRange-14] What do HTTP URIs Identify?

From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 07:19:57 +0100
To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000801c239ec$a0714c80$887ba8c0@mitchum> 


> On Behalf Of Tim Bray

>   The 
> Semantic Web has to be able to tolerate the fact that you can't know 
> what a resource is, and thus different parties may not have a shared 
> perception of this, just like the Web needed 404 to work. -Tim

Some of us have been saying just this for a while now. You can't design
ambiguity out of a system this size or simply wish it away with by
waving axioms at people, however desirable they are. 

regards,
Bill de hÓra
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Propylon
www.propylon.com
Received on Friday, 2 August 2002 02:21:33 GMT

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