- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:38:10 -0400
- To: Stephen Cranefield <SCranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>, "'uri@w3.org'" <uri@w3.org>
At 11:13 PM 2001-09-27 , Stephen Cranefield wrote: >Roy Fielding wrote: >> Note, however, that your suggested change would >> restrict the applicability of a URI-reference beyond what the >> specification currently requires, to the point where it conflicts >> with the Web. You are suggesting that an application-specific >> requirement be placed on an existing protocol element in order >> to satisfy some restriction that somebody wants to use within RDF. >> I don't see any reason why we should make that change. > >Actually, I'm not proposing making a change, just finding out how >compatible the IETF notion of a URI is with the use of a URI scheme >to represent abstract names with no retrieval semantics. The answer ... with no associated Resources? <<< >seems to be that it's not compatible. For the record though, I don't >see how such a change would "conflict with the Web". > What does the 'opaquelocktoken' scheme have to tell us here? Is this compatible with the IETF doctrine on URIs? Can someone construct a scenario in which a #fragment appended to one of these would ever see a context of use? Al >- Stephen >
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