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Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:39:59 -0400
To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Cc: michaelm@netsol.com, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20000602173959.G22263@bailey.dscga.com>
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 05:19:32PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Michael Mealling wrote:
> > By sticking "data:," in front of it? Nothing about the 'data' scheme
> > makes this any different...
> 
> Au contraire.  The "data:" scheme is the only one for which it is *known*
> that if two URIs are different, the resources are different too.

I can see we're never going to get anywhere with this. Your assertion
that two different URIs point to the same captial R Resource is just wrong
according to the complete definition of what URIs identify. I can't
explain it any better than I already have...

-MM

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