- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:23:07 -0700
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
I must have left the smiley off my message, so I will try to supply a clarification: > Perhaps the TAG should stay away from trying > to do math, or at least anything involving the > infinite? I did not mean to imply that the TAG did not contain members who were competent at math involving the infinite, but rather, to express my hope that the TAG try to avoid known impossible problems: boiling the ocean, designing an effective, complete and semantically consistent representation system, or solving deep philosophical problems that have puzzled linguists and philosophers for over a century. Please focus on making progress on the more mundane problems where progress is possible: W3C working group X recommends one kind of thing and working group Y recommends another, and the W3C's specs would be easier to follow if the specs agreed. So insofar as W3C documents disagree with IETF documents about what a 'URI' is, we should certainly work at resolving the difference. I'm not sure it's necessary to actually decide how many resources there are before agreeing on what it is a Uniform Resource Identifier identifies, at least in the context that it's used as a protocol element or a semantic identifier/designator. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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