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

Tim Berners-Lee wrote,
> However, on the web one *does* have a way to own and be the authority
> on an identifier,  and there is no right of a third party to argue
> that it means something else.

What way is that?

A domain name owner is authoritative on the name -> address mapping, 
and, in the REST sense, authoritative on the REST resource -> 
representation mapping.

But that's as far as the existing mechanisms go ... where is RDF in this 
picture?

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Thursday, 8 August 2002 04:08:48 UTC