- From: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:34:05 -0800
- To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, "Sandro Hawke" <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: "Michael Mealling" <michael@neonym.net>, "David Booth" <dbooth@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:02 PM > To: Sandro Hawke > Cc: Michael Mealling; David Booth; www-tag@w3.org; Roy T. > Fielding; Dan Connolly > > > Sandro Hawke wrote: > > > URIs are strings which are used for different things in different > > situations, in a manner controlled by the semantics of the > situation. > > On the other hand, using the same URI to mean different > things is a Bad Thing and leads to confusion and misbehavior > not only at the Semantic Web level but in terms of general > human utility. No matter how forcefully you state it you cannot get around the fact that people will use both http://www.25hoursaday.com to refer to me as a person or to whatever representation is returned by Apache when an HTTP GET is performed. It seems that you are implying that a Semantic Web based on URIs is broken [as designed?]. > It's a formalism. The Web Architecture has a formalism > called a "Resource" which is the one thing that corresponds > to each URI. This statement is meaningless and yet W3C TAG members keep repeating it. What is the one resource that the URI "http://www.w3.org/Consortium/" identifies? -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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