- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:17:25 -0400
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: public-iri@w3.org
On 6/23/11 2:15 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> What that means is that it's impossible to implement section 4.4 by >> canonicalizing all URIs into absolute URIs. All URIs used by a system >> have to remember whether they were "same-document" references (which you >> only know at URI creation time) and if so need to know what document >> they're associated with to be properly retrieved. > > I see no reason why "creation time" would have anything to do with this. > It's not a concept that's mentioned in RFC 3986, so I don't see why you > would use it when discussing concepts defined in RFC 3986. Time matters because base URIs are not time-invariant, so the language in 4.4 presupposes that the comparison to a base URI is performed at a particular instant in time. Which instant is that? If it's not creation time, what other time is involved? -Boris
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