- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@intergraph.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:15:54 -0600
- To: "'algermissen@acm.org'" <algermissen@acm.org>
- Cc: 'W3C TAG' <www-tag@w3.org>
It is a matter of emphasis. IDs are independent of location. Move a file from your hard drive to another storage device if you don't believe that. This is a distraction. The cost/benefit issues for name system layers are well-known and exhaustively documented. This is probably the one permathread that the TAG should reject on sight on the basis of wasted and unproductive effort. len From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jan Algermissen In an information system, identifiers are not only names but also references (to locations) and to get to what they reference, they must be dereferenced. The need for a working dereferencing mechanism does not go away by declaring the identifiers to be location independent. You simply defer the problem.
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