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

> If as Fielding says, URIs are the words of the web, then
> we should understand that as the linguists say, words
> have no meaning.

URIs *are* the words of the web.  

However, I would recommend TAG avoid endorsing any particular point of
view regarding semiotics as well.  The relevance is debatable, and the
particular point of view you express is still controversial.  


P.S.

In fact, this idea is not really even supported by the originator of 
Semiotics theory himself, Umberto Eco.

The idea that "words have no meaning" was associated with Eco's earlier
text which coined "semiotics", where he said, "I think that the narrator
should 
never provide interpretation of his own work.  Text is a machine
conceived 
for eliciting interpretation. When one has the text in question it is 
irrelevant to ask the author".  

However, Eco has many times since clarified, and at a speech to Columbia

University in 1996, he stated "I was starting the dialectic between the 
right of the texts and the right of their interpreters. I have the 
impression that in the course of the last decades the right of the 
interpreters has been overstressed".