- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:20:23 -0400
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: uri-request@w3.org, uri@w3.org
Patrick Stickler scripsit:
> >> You are aware, of course, that "Shakespeare" is a bunny? :-)
>
> I challenge you to prove to me that that is true, based
> solely on that stream of bits.
Nobody can prove anything based solely on a stream of bits. For all
you know, you are (and have been since the beginning of your net.life)
the victim of a man-in-the-middle attack by evil beings from Beta Hydri.
> What trust can I place in the mnemmonic characteristics
> of the URI? Perhaps the URI actually denotes a picture
> of rabbit named "Fred" taken by a local plumber named
> Shakespeare. Perhaps "Shakespeare" means "this is
> what's for dinner" in some bizarre language, which
> is what is really the linguistic basis for the URI.
Any of that could be true. A little investigation of context shows
that "Shakespeare" is the name of the rabbit.
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