- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:17:22 -0700
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 06:17 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >> Joshua Allen wrote: >>> "If two people independently use the same URI as an identifier, they >>> should be able to have a reasonable degree of confidence that they are >>> identifying the same resource. People should not be required to >>> parse, dereference, or otherwise >>> acquire any *additional* disambiguating information to provide this >>> basic guarantee. Resource naming practices should be considered >>> carefully, and people are >>> strongly discouraged from naming resources in a manner that >>> unnecessarily weakens this guarantee." >> The intent seems good, but how on earth do you build this confidence? >> By relying on the human-language semantics of the opaque part of the URI? > Absolutely not. Joshua didn't mean that you knew what each URI meant by > just looking at it -- he meant (I think/hope!) that you know from the > architecture that the two occurrences of the URI will identify the same > thing, whatever that is. There is no ambiguity built into the > architecture itself. This is a core principle fo the Web which we seem > to be in danger of forgetting. Indeed, I mis-parsed Joshua's point, but I come back with the same question: How do you get this kind of confidence? Joshua suggests that the answer has to do with how you go about naming resources. I don't get it; further explanation please? -Tim
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