RE: What is at the end of the namespace?

• From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
• Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:29:03 +0200
• To: mnot@akamai.com
• Cc: www-talk@w3.org, uri@w3.org
• Message-ID: <2BF0AD29BC31FE46B788773211440431621812@trebe003.NOE.Nokia.com>

> Whenever you use an HTTP URI in a Web browser,

I never said I was in a web browser ;-)

> Why is it so odd that some people only want to use it as an
> identifier, without going off and dereferencing it? 

Because other folks expect that an HTTP URI *is* dereferencable,
hence all the (IMO needless) bruhaha over "what's at the end
of a namespace".

Patrick

Received on Monday, 19 November 2001 06:29:07 UTC