- From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:22:50 +0100
- To: "'Joshua Allen'" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: "'Tim Berners-Lee'" <timbl@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> Joshua Allen: > > A) URIs intended to be unambiguous identifiers, and people > are advised to respect that. > B) People are advised to avoid X, Y, Z because that would > violate principle "A". Exactly. Follow this principle to the letter (though if it were an axiom would we have a choice?), but make allowances for the fact that others might not, for various reasons and accidents, and that ambiguity can't be either outlawed or designed out of, a system the size the web. We can't even do that for formal systems. The text could be a variant on being strict in what you send and forgiving in what you receive. but applied higher up in the web layer cake. regards, Bill de hÓra .. Propylon www.propylon.com ps: And a small request, can we stop calling people who don't follow this principle stupid or not sane? ;)
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