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

From: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:36:02 -0400
To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
Cc: "'Tim Berners-Lee'" <timbl@w3.org>, "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Message-ID: <20020805183602.H25907@bailey.dscga.com>

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:02:07PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> >> Tim BL:
> Please do not claim that people can do whatever they like - or we will
> lose the protocols to mayhem. 
> >>
> 
> But we didn't claim any such thing. You claimed this would be a place
> where one could say anything about anything. 

But which has the special property of knowing whether or not the things
being said come from an authoritative source or not. Even in the much
ballyhooed "real world" it is widely understood that the authority section
in a URI denotes an ownership quality that means that anything found
on that server was said by the authority and not some shmuck on the street
yammering to himself....

-MM

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