- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:30:10 -0700
- To: "Narahari, Sateesh" <Sateesh_Narahari@jdedwards.com>, "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> The assumption that semantic web can not be messy is false. It is like > saying web can not have 404 and a HTML page must ensure the existence of > every link it references. What we are talking about here is not just "messiness". The semantic web can tolerate messiness, just like the real web. But on the real web, when you type in http://www.ibm.com, you actually go to IBM's web site (and not Microsoft's), unless someone is doing something really dumb. It's the same on the semantic web -- if I say something about http://www.microsoft.com, you know that I am talking about Microsoft's web site. When someone says "bad", you assume they mean "bad", and not "good". The only time that http://www.microsoft.com will identify something *other* than Microsoft's web site is when someone is doing something really dumb.
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