- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:10:21 -0800
- To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Bill de hÓra wrote: > > To the TAG, > > In an effort to cut to the chase and get some software build and > deployed that uses RDF technology, I would like to TAG to advise on the > structural relationship between URIs and what it is they identify, > namely the Resources (hereafter 'things'). > > I offer an opinion. The relationship between URIs and things is many to > many. One URI will be used to denote many things. A thing will be > denoted by many URIs. How about a slight recasting of that: 1. Different URIs can identify the same resource, in the opinion of the creators and users of that resource. 2. The Web is designed on the principle that a single URI identifies a single resource which does not change. In practice, this principle is someties violated (insert list of nasty examples), and software must often deal with the consequences, but such inconsistency is always damaging and SHOULD be avoided. -Tim
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