- From: Joshua Tauberer <tauberer@for.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:09:32 -0400
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: David Powell <djpowell@djpowell.net>, "Hammond, Tony" <T.Hammond@nature.com>, "'SWIG'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sandro Hawke wrote: > This is very old ground, but can I ask your reason for using tag: URIs > instead of HTTP URIs? > (snip) > Do you want the web's default mechanism at your disposal for fetching > information about the identified thing? For lots of things that I want to assign URIs to, I don't have any intention of making a specific http: page available for it. http: is nice for predicates 'n ontologies and when the resource is itself a web page, but if I want to assign a URI to my bed (as I did in the article), I don't think there's a point to using http:. Of course in the end it doesn't matter, but it is a point of confusion. And from the pedagogical point of view, I want readers of the article to be exposed to http: URIs but to see that http: isn't privileged. -- - Joshua Tauberer http://taubz.for.net ** Nothing Unreal Exists **
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