- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:15:34 +0200
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
> Let's see if I've got this... > > <http://www.vw.com/touareg/> (with no surrounding context - which I > guess is > itself a context) identifies a website about a brand of car. Sorry, I meant to add "in plain text". In structured text, I would assume there is some metadata that defines the context. > The sentence: > > "I want one of these cars: <http://www.vw.com/touareg/>." > > indirectly identifies the particular brand/model by reference to the > website > about the brand. > > The sentence surrounding the reference to the web-site establishes > that the > referent is the brand/model and not the website itself. > > ie. the referent of a reference made using a URI is generally > dependent on > its surrounding context. Mostly. I would say that the referent of the use of a URI has only indirect relation to the referent of the URI. It is therefore false to say that all uses of a URI must be consistent, even if we require that all referents of the URI be consistent. The interaction method must be orthogonal to resource identification. Otherwise, the constraint on "GET must be safe" wouldn't make any sense. ....Roy
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