Is file:///foo a URI?

At 05:02 PM 6/14/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>(Don't be confused with file:///foo which is a URI which is designed for use
>on a sungle system, and not designed for interchange across systems
>Some have refered to this as relative, but that was not the intent.
>There is no assumption that a file:///foo URI has any meaning on any other
>system
>or should ever be transmitted to another file system)

Doesn't that mean that file:///foo is not truly a URI?

OR: by virtue of having such an identifier, an object is not ipso facto "on 
the web". (c.f. <http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms>)

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2000 10:41:10 UTC