Re: URIs: resources and contradictions was: Re: httpRange proposed text

Joshua Allen wrote,
> > But this isn't helpful. Now we have the problem of trying to
> > connect the formal model with the real world ... how people use URIs
> > in practice. Given that this axiom is pretty clearly not operative
> > in most peoples uses of URIs, all it does is open an unbridgeable
> > gulf between the web as formalized and the web as used and talked
> > about.
>
> This is incorrect; a Goebbels-esque "big lie".  In practice, people
> use URIs exactly the way that the axiom intended.

Should I invoke Godwin now?

> When two people use the same http URL, they have a reasonable degree
> of confidence that they will be connecting to the same "thing", and
> they don't even have to dereference the site to have that confidence.

This is a straightforward empirical question. To find out if you're 
right all you have to do is go out with a clipboard and ask people.

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Saturday, 3 August 2002 20:14:49 UTC