- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:51:18 +0200
- To: ext Tim Kindberg <timothy@hpl.hp.com>, URN <urn-ietf@lists.netsol.com>, URI <uri@w3.org>
On 2002-01-25 18:13, "ext Tim Kindberg" <timothy@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> At 12:25 PM 1/25/02 +0200, Patrick Stickler wrote:
>
>> Names may only be valid or interpretable within a given context, but
>> I do not agree that the same name in different contexts can correspond
>> to different "things".
>
> So /etc/passwd is guaranteed to be the same file on all UNIX computers? So
> we have to give up the independence of bindings of names like 192.168.0.*?
>
My apologies, I was thinking URI and wrote "name".
My argument was that URIs are global names with consistent meaning. A URI
cannot mean different things in different contexts, as the intended scope
of URIs is to be globally consistent.
Patrick
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Received on Monday, 28 January 2002 06:50:22 UTC