- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 01:14:18 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Joshua Allen wrote, > > 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. Should I invoke Godwin now? > 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. This is a straightforward empirical question. To find out if you're right all you have to do is go out with a clipboard and ask people. Cheers, Miles
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