- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:39:12 -0400
- To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
> Namespaces are not about disambiguating the semantics of names, just > names as such and their ownership. What does it mean to "own" a name? How can you tell who or what "owns" a name? In what scenarios does ownership matter or appear? I have some drafty answers to these, near to: http://esw.w3.org/topic/FollowLinksForMoreInformation http://esw.w3.org/topic/NamespaceSquating http://esw.w3.org/topic/NamespaceDistortion Lately I've been reading Kripke and getting a better handle on this, but I haven't expressed my thoughts on it yet. > This is not a bug, it's a feature -- as Michael Kay says, > interpretation is always context-bound, that's in the nature of names. And yet human and machine networks only scale when you have a global context, like URIs and the web. That's why we treat URIs as having (mostly) a single meaning, right? -- sandro
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