Re: WebID definitions and specs: conceptual vs functional

On 22 Mar 2013, at 18:15, Jürgen Jakobitsch <j.jakobitsch@semantic-web.at> wrote:

> 
>>   Axiom: Opacity of URIs
>> 
>>   The only thing you can use an identifier for is to refer to 
>>   an object. When you are not dereferencing, you should not 
>>   look at the contents of the URI string to gain other 
>>   information.
>> 
>> In other words -- whether it contains a hash or not; whether
>> its scheme is http or spdy or lmnop; whether it's short or long,
>> human comprehensible or pure gibberish -- all of this must be 
>> ignored *except* when *actually dereferencing,* which is not 
>> conceptual, but functional.
>> 
> 
> 
> intersting... i wrote about something like this, but has been deleted
> from argument list :
> 
> (the now zombie-page)
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/index.php?title=WebID_Definition/hash&oldid=481

Do you think this would have changed the consensus?


Henry

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