RE: Semantic web - a fractal ongoing struggle toward greater consistency.

• From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:55:37 +0100
• To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <NDBBLCBLIMDOPKMOPHLHIEFLFGAA.jon@spin.ie>

> Of course, in RDF HTTP URIs are used as UUIDs.  But while they
> are used that
> way, they are no longer HTTP URIs, but just unique, opaque
> identity markers.  I still
> think that in that case, we are using these HTTP URIs as UUIDs to
> denote the HTTP URIs
> used as HTTP URIs.

They are always UUIDs, if they weren't they couldn't function as URLs since
it would be impossible to know what resource you should send a
representation of.
HTTP, DNS and server implementation policies add semantics on top of the
opaque identifier, but they never cease to identify one thing and one thing
alone.

Received on Monday, 28 July 2003 07:52:25 UTC