Postscript to discussion on URI denotations...

This message from Drew McDermott just appeared on another list...
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The important point is that a vocabulary provide the necessary
lubrication for interagent discourse.  If everyone uses it, and
everyone agrees on the meanings of the terms, or agrees 99% of the
time, then web services will be useful and roboust.
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-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws/2003May/0066.html

I found this message interesting in that it addresses the issue of a common 
referent for shared vocabulary terms while explaining that this common 
meaning doesn't need to be hardwired into the languages we use.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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