- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:31:07 -0400
- To: <reagle@w3.org>, "Ian Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Reagle" <reagle@w3.org> To: "Ian Jacobs" <ij@w3.org> Cc: <www-tag@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: Comments on Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webarch-20020830/ [...] > > 2.1. Resources, URIs, and the shared information space > Use absolute URI references: All important resources SHOULD be > identified by an absolute URI reference.1 > > What exceptions are permitted? Is this to accommodate the use of QNames as > identifiers? (Can one have an identifier without a "resource"?) This is an example of the confusion between the identifier and a reference. This confusion is really exacerbated by this awful term "absolute URI reference" for the identifier! A QName is a perfectly good reference to something which is identified by a URI. The QName isn't itself a URI, just as a relative reference a not a URI. Tim
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