- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:11:30 -0400
- To: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- CC: xml-uri@w3.org
Miles Sabin wrote: > But why should the URI-to-resouce binding be any more constant > than the resource-to-entity body relationship? What is the reason for flexibility? > The President isn't always the same person, and whichever > person it happens to be this week isn't always the same bunch > of atoms. Just so. When you have a bill to be signed, you want to access the resource named "urn:us-gov:the-president", to wit, the President. Whichever (entity) body you get, currently Mr. Clinton, will be able to do what you want. If you want Clinton himself, you need a different resource with a different URI, which will be bound to the same (entity) body at the moment. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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