- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:46:48 +0100
- To: "Tim Kindberg" <timothy@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
> I need help here, but it seems to me that there should be a notion > of an 'original binding': I mint a tag and I bind that tag to a resource > that I own, in such a way that that resource will only ever appear > with that tag. Speaking more from an SW point of view, URIs are only *ever* defined by their particular implementation(s); the problem with using HTTP to identify a concept is that the schema associated with that particular URI by "GET" will almost certainly go out of date once the implmentation of the URI gets tweaked and evolved. Now, this shouldn't be the case because one should use new URIs as soon as the concept changes... but pragmatically, and even theoretically speaking, this is not the case. There is no concept of "original binding", only "proprietary binding". URIs are fully opaque in that anyone can use them for anything, but it is the widely (globally) agreed upon implementation of them that makes the difference. By registering "tag" as an RFC, you are simply seeking that global acceptance, not a standard for all time and space - that is impossible. Actually, I wrote an excellent note about this to xml-dev a while back... ah, at [1]. [1] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200103/msg01053.html -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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