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> On the contrary, you can indeed acertain that
>two URIs given identify the same resource.
>What you cannot do is acertain that they don't.

Was there a clear defense of the assertion that this weak inequality was a
reasonable characteristic for namespace identities, and thus that using
URIs for this purpose really made sense in the first place?

I think there _is_ an expectation that we can clearly distinguish namespace
inequality as well as equality. Consider XSLT processing; elements
belonging to XSLT's namespace are commands, those which don't are
considered literal content. It feels rather strange to be considering
recasting this as "those we are/aren't sure of".

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research