- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 16:54:09 -0700
- To: "Miles Sabin" <miles@milessabin.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> But this isn't helpful. Now we have the problem of trying to connect the > formal model with the real world ... how people use URIs in practice. > Given that this axiom is pretty clearly not operative in most peoples > uses of URIs, all it does is open an unbridgeable gulf between the > web as formalized and the web as used and talked about. This is incorrect; a Goebbels-esque "big lie". In practice, people use URIs exactly the way that the axiom intended. When two people use the same http URL, they have a reasonable degree of confidence that they will be connecting to the same "thing", and they don't even have to dereference the site to have that confidence.
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