- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:07:01 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Liam Quin <liam@holoweb.net>, xml-uri@w3.org
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > > Liam said: > > >All of these problems stem from using a URI as a name for something > > >instead of idenftifying the location for something. > > > > No no no no no. An HTTP URI is a name, and there is a lookup function > > for it. There are not rules against reuse imposed globally, but there are > > as many levels of indirection as you like available. > > > > Please stop refering to it as a location....! > > The problem is that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's hard to > prevent people from imposing duckish expectations on it. URIs create those > expectations. Correction: URIs that look like Web locations create those expectations. Paul Abrahams
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