- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:53:22 -0600
- To: 'Mark Baker' <distobj@acm.org>, 'Walden Mathews' <waldenm@optonline.net>
- Cc: "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
Say, common practice. It works because of out-of-band agreements public or private that are out of scope for this document, IMO. In that sense, the URI is used just as a natural language is used. No big whoop and no need to specify or disallow that in the web architecture. A constrained usage such as the semantic web could need requires a different specification defining that usage. "Global truth" stretches that a bit far. len From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] "When conference organizers ask attendees to register by giving their email addresses, both parties *know* that they are using the mailbox identifier indirectly to identify the person." (emphasis mine) "know" suggests that this is some global truth grounded in public specification, rather than in an out-of-band agreement between these two parties alone, or otherwise.
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