- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:01:35 +0100
- To: "'Miles Sabin'" <miles@milessabin.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Miles, > -----Original Message----- > From: Miles Sabin [mailto:miles@milessabin.com] > Sent: 21 July 2002 22:50 > To: www-tag@w3.org > Subject: Re: Context Independent URI > > Williams, Stuart wrote, > > So... I have tried to avoid using the term absolute to avoid > > confusion with absolute and relative URI and tried to focus the > > principle on the scope of the mapping from URI to resource/concept. > > Umm ... but that renders the "principle" pretty close to hopeless: a > relative URI ISA URI, yet is quite clearly context dependent, and quite > rightly so. Yes, I agree, the resource denoted by a relative URI is also context dependent. What I am trying to pick up is that there are also some (syntactically) absolute URI (in that they start with a scheme name) that are also context dependent... eg. URI which use an unqualified domain name as the assigning authority; file: scheme URI which allow a hostname, but do not identify the namespace from which the hostname is taken (eg internet-domain name, DECNet, Novell IPX, Appletalk...). Do each of the absolute URI file:///etc/passwd or file://localhost/autoexec.bat or http://cally/ identify a single resource or concept? > At the very least the text of the principle needs > a bit of serious tweaking. So... is there a particular 'tweak' that you had in mind? > Cheers, > > > Miles Thanks, Stuart
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