- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:46:15 -0700
- To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> > 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. > I wonder why this is so hard for people to understand. Ambiguity is inevitable. OK? Is everyone happy now that we agree on this? But I am puzzled how this has ANY bearing on the following "axiom": "If two people independently use the same URI as an identifier, they should be able to have a reasonable degree of confidence that they are identifying the same resource. People should not be required to parse, dereference, or otherwise acquire any *additional* disambiguating information to provide this basic guarantee. Resource naming practices should be considered carefully, and people are strongly discouraged from naming resources in a manner that unnecessarily weakens this guarantee."
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