Re: Proposed issue: What does using an URI require of me and my software?

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:00, Bijan Parsia wrote:
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> TECHNICAL POINT
> 
> This resolves to a simple technical point: Should an RDF 
> processor/reasoner/agent import, to the best of its ability, pace 
> network outages, cacheing, etc. "the" ontology of every URI it sees in 
> a document?

I don't think so.

But I'm not sure what an RDF processor/reasoner/agent is.

>  There *is software that made this assumption*. In our 
> group, a student wrote an editor, RIC, that did exactly this. DanC and 
> Tim, at the WWW BOF, I'm pretty sure, said that this was what you *had* 
> to do. DanC said, I believe, that all his software already did that.

Did I say that? Oh well. These days, I use and write lots of
software that doesn't always do that.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:35:15 UTC