- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:21:27 -0400
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: abrahams@acm.org, John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:19:41PM -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > >> > One would expect a URI reference to be > >> > a pointer to a URI, i.e., a doubly indirect specification of a > >> > resource, and not some generalization or specialization of a URI. > > > One would, but one would be wrong. I think the term came around from > some thought such as "a reference using a URI" or something... > I was not very involved in the haggles about terms. It is difficult to > be close to English usage at the end of a lot of specification > discussions. Being tangentially involved in that discussion, the term came from the fact that, at the time, the only place that used those additional semantics of relative URIs and fragments was found in hypertext references inside documents (i.e. places where a base was defined and there were identified document fragments). -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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