- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:23:19 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 02:23 PM, Brian McBride wrote:
> (1) In the seller advert it would appear that the seller is
> only advertising a
> single specific (but under-specified) service, #anon12345 or
> whatever, which
> would be hard to distinguish from an actual service instance
> like #service42.
Why would you want to distinguish between the two? And I see
nothing about a URI that licenses you to assume that there is
only such thing.
> (2) Similarly in the buyer advert instead of describing a
> template, giving the
> service a URI would make it appear that I am looking for a
> specific service with
> that URI.
Umm, aren't you? What's the difference? In both you're looking
for something with these properties.
> This is clearly similar to DanC's book buying example.
Yes, the fact that there is so much confusion about the
semantics of URIs and anonymous nodes makes it extremely clear
that we must clarify this kind of thing immediately.
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