- From: Lee Jonas <lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:25:07 +0100
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <charles@w3.org>, Lee Jonas <lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk>
- Cc: "'Aaron Swartz'" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Ok, so if I want to store some metadata that states you wrote the email this is a response to, which URI would you suggest I use for the email and which URI to identify you? Is there any way I can determine the appropriate URIs to use programatically? Lee Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:charles@w3.org] wrote: >No, you are falling into the trap I am describing, of making assertions about >a URI that you did not publish and for which you appear to be unaware of the >semantics. > >As far as I am aware, mailto:charles@w3.org is a URI that W3C maintains, >whether ot provides a way to get to me, or just a way to get a mesage saying >that I have been sacked for eating all the vegemite. > >At any rate, the semantics of that URI are the responsibility of the >publisher - in this case w3.org (and here we get to the real process problem >- the people who give away ^H^H^H^H^H sell domain names do not yet seem >convinced that they have any responsibility to the community that relies on >domain names to identify something). If we have a body that assigns URNs then >we just repeat the problem, plus we have to resolve them and for some reason >everyone seems to think that the best way of doing that is via a URI >identifier... > >chaals > [snip]
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