Re: URI Owners

ah, it's owned because the community agrees that is the way we work, 
it's not a legal ownership. That was my confusion.

On 15/06/11 12:14, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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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Received on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 11:36:14 UTC