- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:36:41 -0700
- To: "Miles Sabin" <miles@milessabin.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> > 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. > > Where is that confidence supposed to come from? That's irrelevant. The confidence has to come from *somewhere*. URIs are as good a place as any, especially considering THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE CREATED FOR. > In which case the "axiom" tells you not to use http://www.w3.org/ as an > identifier, which is ridiculous; or not to use it independently (ie. reach > some explicit agreement about it's use with all relevant parties), which > is typically impractical. It tells you no such thing. The resource that http://www.w3.org identifies is whatever people use it to identify. In practice, that currently amounts to "some thing that I can point a web browser at and get information about the W3C". That's good enough for me. If I ever want to identify that particular resource, http://www.w3.org is the identifier I'll use.
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