RE: [httpRange-14] What do HTTP URIs Identify?

But if you have to tolerate ambiguity, the axiom 
is nothing more than a best practice and the 
reliability of the system just dropped a notch.

What is wrong with a two level system?

len

From: Bill de hOra [mailto:dehora@eircom.net]

> On Behalf Of Tim Bray

>   The 
> Semantic Web has to be able to tolerate the fact that you can't know 
> what a resource is, and thus different parties may not have a shared 
> perception of this, just like the Web needed 404 to work. -Tim

Some of us have been saying just this for a while now. You can't design
ambiguity out of a system this size or simply wish it away with by
waving axioms at people, however desirable they are. 

Received on Friday, 2 August 2002 10:21:32 UTC