- From: Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:32:39 -0000
- To: 'Patrick Stickler' <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> I simply can't fathom any real benefit to having a URI > which, by definition, cannot be used to access such knowledge. The reason is to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible. By explicitly excluding dereference we have devised a very simple, focussed registration mechanism which requires almost zero maintenance and is consistent across the whole INFO namespace with a predictable behaviour (i.e. disclosure of identity). This is a baseline service - think of it as something like the Model T. I agree that it would be useful to have resource representations sitting out there on some network endpoint - but that is just way too expensive for the namespaces we are interested in fostering. There are no (human) resources available to maintain such an undertaking. The conclusion is that we either go this zero-resolution route or we accept that many of these namespaces will continue not to be represented on the Web. Which means that we will continue to be frustrated by not being able to 'talk' about well-known public information assets in Web description technologies. Tony
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