Re: Proposed issue: What does using an URI require of me and my software? from Graham Klyne on 2003-09-23 (public-sw-meaning@w3.org from September 2003)

From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:36:22 +0100
To: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030923173415.02d4cc30@127.0.0.1>

At 11:00 23/09/03 -0400, Bijan Parsia wrote:
>The main line is "that use of a URI in RDF implies a commitment to its 
>ontology".

Er, what does it mean for a URI to have an ontology?

I originally read that statement loosely as meaning something like "Using 
the URI in RDF is to make statements about what the owner of the URI claims 
it to identify".  By this, using a URI *formally* means nothing.

#g

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GK@NineByNine.org

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