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

> I'd be much happier with "URIs *are* the letters of the web". We can
> write stuff all day long. Now we just have to figure out how to string
> those letters together and agree on what those arrangements mean.
> Do letters by themselves have much meaning? No. Its the words
> that are important. But you can't spell a word without a letter...

Too late for that.  URIs already identify things; letters don't.  And I
can spell all sorts of words without letters -- so long as I use
Chinese.  You can't spell a URI without letters, but that's just an
artifact of the Western-European cultural bias of the original web
architecture.