- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:12:33 +0000
- To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: Jonathan Rees > > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-discovery-00 > [ . . . ] > - I anticipate some confusion as to whether the link relates the > resource to the DR (as in the POWDER 'describedby' definition you > quote), the URI to the DR, or the URI to the DR's URI (as in the > second sentence of section 6). In RDF, <resource> describedby <dr> > is most natural to write, but RDF semantics rules out the > possibility that this might say anything specific to a particular > URI naming the resource[*]. This protocol is an > opportunity for the > URI owner to say things not only about the resource but about the > URI/resource binding itself, such as its authority, provenance, and > stability, and that will vary with URI, not resource, as each URI > might have a different "owner". > > This issue may be esoteric enough that addressing it might be more > confusing than not, but I want you to consider yourself forewarned. But this is *exactly* the issue that arises when one wishes, for example, to indicate that one URI has been deprecated by another URI: you need to talk about the *URI*, not about the resource *denoted* by the URI. So I do think it is important to raise this point. This has come up in other discussions, BTW, such as http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008Jul/0274.html David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Statements made herein represent the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of HP unless explicitly so stated.
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