Re: How about "identifying URL" instead of "canonical" URL?

On 6/23/14 11:52 AM, Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
> This sounds odd to me. I'd rather we use primary, as suggested by Sandro.

So you find: Primary URL clearer than canonical URI or even canoical 
URL. Where is "Primary..." in any RDF or AWWW spec?


That it sounds nice to you is not the point!

Kingsley
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> Arnaud  Le Hors - Software Standards Architect - IBM Software Group
>
>
> Cody Burleson <cody.burleson@base22.com> wrote on 06/23/2014 08:19:06 AM:
>
> > From: Cody Burleson <cody.burleson@base22.com>
> > To: Linked Data Platform WG <public-ldp-wg@w3.org>,
> > Date: 06/23/2014 08:30 AM
> > Subject: How about "identifying URL" instead of "canonical" URL?
> >
> > Regarding today's discussion about the ambiguity and possible
> > inaccurate nature of our use of the the term "canonical"...
> >
> > How about "identifying" ?
> >
> > Here's how it reads:
> >
> > <section>
> > <h3>Respond with identifying URLs and use them for identity 
> comparison</h3>
> >
> > <p>Clients can access an LDPR using multiple URLs. An LDPR server
> > should respond to each of those requests using a single consistent
> > URL, an <em>identifying</em> URL, for the LDPR. This identifying URL
> > may be found
> > in the response's Location and/or Content-Location headers, and
> > potentially also in the representation of the LDPR. A common case is
> > URLs that vary by protocol, one HTTP and one HTTPS, but are
> > otherwise identical. In most cases those two URLs refer to the same
> > resource, and the server should respond to requests on either URL
> > with a single (identity) URL.</p>
> >
> > <p>Clients should use the identifying URL as an LDPR's identity;
> > for example, when determining if two URLs refer to the same resource
> > clients should compare the identifying URLs, not the URLs used to
> > access the resources.</p>
> >
> > --
> > Cody Burleson 



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