- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 19 Sep 2002 12:35:20 -0500
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, "'Norman Walsh'" <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 11:52, David Orchard wrote: > > I find this argument amazingly compelling. I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I disagree so strongly I can't find time to write it down... > I've been waiting for somebody > to synthesize this into something that my more mortal brain can understand. > Thanks. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > Spin it another way: the URI, and the representations you can (maybe) > > get with it, are all there is. There is no point in arguing > > about the > > fundamental nature of what the URI identifies and what the > > representations represent, because (a) you can never know, true, to some extent, but... > > and (b) it > > doesn't matter. False. Quick analogy: you can never know exactly what a dollar is worth, but boy does it matter! -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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