- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:32:39 -0400
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > Reversed domains aren't *meant* to link to anything. They shouldn't > be parsed at all. They're a uniquifier so that multiple vocabularies > can use the same terms without clashing or ambiguity. The Microdata > proposal also allows normal urls, but they are similarly nothing more > than a uniquifier. > > CURIEs, at least theoretically, *rely* on the prefix lookup. After > all, how else can you tell that a given relation is really the same > as, say, foaf:name? If the domain isn't available, the data will be > parsed incorrectly. That's why link rot is an issue. Where in the CURIE spec does it state or imply that if a domain isn't available, that the resulting parsed data will be invalid? -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: A Collaborative Distribution Model for Music http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/
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