- From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:46:19 +1000 (EST)
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
> Think about it: it that were true, then by writing "1404 West La Rua > St., Pensacola" you would have created a link to something that does > not exist, which is impossible. <a href="http://this.does.not.exist.com/index.html"> Link </a> Have I not just created a link to something that does not exist? Is this not quite acceptable in the current web architecture? A citation of a book giving page number, paragraph and line number is still a link, even if the book no longer exists. Not all links can be traversed or dereferenced. "Creating a link to" == referencing, in some cases quite optimistically Thus your original sentence is not as trivially correct as you seem to believe it to be: "For example, putting a URI up on a website does not "create a link to" a galaxy 100 million light-years away." Does it "create a reference to" a galaxy? Is this only a problem because it is a HTTP URI? Would it help if we defined an urn:astro:galaxy-THX-1138 URI that could be used instead? Seems like it might be easier at this point for the "web" to use URLs and the "semantic web" to use URNs, but I'm sure that's been suggested a few times before. Michael -- YesLogic Prince prints XML! http://yeslogic.com
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