Re: URI Owners

> Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A  
> URI has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to,  
> but I'm not sure you can own an identifier.

http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-assignment

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On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:58, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:

> Picking up on comment by Richard, but forking the thread
>
> "Would you agree that Facebook are the owners of this URI?"
>
> Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A  
> URI has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to,  
> but I'm not sure you can own an identifier.
>
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