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Re: WebID definition -- proposal: drop the word 'uniquely'

From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:10:02 -0500
Message-ID: <5118DF9A.7000702@openlinksw.com>
To: public-webid@w3.org
On 2/11/13 6:06 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> "A WebID is an HTTP URI which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person, 
> Organization, Group, Device, etc.)."
>
> I propose we drop 'uniquely'.  Unclear it adds anything here and may 
> be confusing (at least it was to me).
>
> If the implication is that the webid contains 1 or more IFP that are 
> unique, it's not even clear to me how we would test that.

I actually thought *uniquely* was dropped a while back, for the sake of 
simplicity and clarity.

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