Re: What is the URI of Truth?

> that there is IMO a clear and essential property of
> URLs, that they define a location (or access
> mechanism) by which to obtain content, which makes
> them unsuitable, for philosophical (and practical)
> reasons as universal identifiers/names.

As Pierre-Antoine has already stated, not all URLs get back some
resolvable content. For example:-

   tel:+358-555-1234567

It's a location, but the concept of "URL" doesn't state what it's the
location *of*.

> A namespace should be identified *only* with
> a URN.

If that were so, then there would have been something in the XMLNS
specification about it. As it is, there isn't, so it's not. I rarely
ever see URNs being used for namespaces.

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Sean B. Palmer
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Received on Friday, 8 June 2001 10:27:27 UTC