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

> URIs denote things. They refer to things. They don't identify things, 
implicitly. 
> Denotation is not the same thing as Identification. That's clearly 
understood and reflected in RDF and related AWWW documents. 

Citation(s) please?
I'll note up front, having just searched, that "denote" occurs exactly 
zero times in [1].  Section 2.2 [2] even names a Constraint "URIs Identify 
a Single Resource ", which on the surface appears to contradict your 
response.  The "denot" (sic - searched for the root in both documents) 
count is 3 in RFC 3986 [3], none of which are definitional; the variations 
on "identif" are (predictably) more common, with section 1.1 containing an 
entire paragraph (under the "heading" *Identifier*).
Looking at RDF Semantics [4] and the David Booth thread [5], "denote" vs 
"identify" is covered in [4] section 4, "denote" is an RDF-specific layer 
that nets out to "denote" = "identify" + "interpretation", or more 
specifically  "RDF-denote" = "WebArch-identify" + "RDF-interpretation". 
Keeping in mind that the LDP WG is about evenly divided between people 
whose natural habitat is "REST" (but most can spell RDF) and those ... 
"RDF" (most of whom can spell REST/HTTP), it might be we have another case 
where it's tricky to get everyone understanding things equally because of 
our differing backgrounds.  What's "clearly understood" in one context has 
proven in the past to sometimes be "new news" in the other over the short 
history of this WG.
That distinction might also lead people to lean one way vs another when it 
comes to choosing which terminology to re-use.  Since an LDPR might (or 
might not) be an LDP-RS, and the subject discussion is about LDPRs in 
general (not the smaller class of LDP-RS's), people might be 
understandably reluctant to apply RDF-specific terminology (no matter how 
well-defined) in contexts that are not RDF-specific.  Or not; that's why 
we have discussion lists.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#id-resources
[3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-mt/
[5] 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Oct/0096.html

Best Regards, John

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