- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:06:27 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote, > This may be a fair statement of where the angst is coming from. > Let's assume, as a thought experiment, that it is. So, do we fix the > definition of URIs or do we fix the specification of RDF? > > Since the vast majority of software out there actually does implement > URI semantics per RFC2396 (Roy is right; look at a browser or robot > source code any time), the cost of changing that definition is higher > than the cost of changing RDF, whose deployment is at a much earlier > point in the historical curve. Is it tho'? RDF doesn't need any changes to URI _syntax_. Nor does it need any changes in network protocols, clients or server. All it needs is for some bogus metaphysics to be ditched. Exactly _what_ would that break? Cheers, Miles
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