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

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:


>
> I believe that we have come to some kind
> of consensus here that strongly suggests
> why the use of technologies such as RDDL
> and RDF have value:  to annotate and
> correlate the interpretations.  As has
> been stated, the use of the URI to point
> to a separate interpretive document is
> not mandated, but very useful.  The
> role of the URI in the XML namespace as
> a syntactical device to disambiguate names
> is fixed, not arguable.  The use of it
> to cite an interpretive document is not
> fixed, but it is wise.   To know what
> some authority asserts it means, we have
> to ask the cat.
>

We can say (as a start -- could use some wordsmithing perhaps):

"The meaning of a URI(ref) as intended by its authority is defined by the
set of assertions obtained when the URI is referenced.

When the media type of such a representation is: application/rdf+xml, then
the meaning of the represented URI is given by the graph as per the RDF
model theory."

Jonathan