- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:36:08 -0400
- To: "Larry Masinter" <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
On 2009-07 -03, at 03:55, Larry Masinter wrote: >>>>> Could http://danbri.org be a URI for "me the person", and >>>>> http://danbri.org/ >>>>> be a document about me (and also serve as my OpenID)? > > Allowing http://danbri.org and http://danbri.org/ to "represent" > different things would be a bad design choice. Don't do it. > > Perhaps there isn't an audit trail in RFC 2616 that doesn't > tell you that you shouldn't do something, but that doesn't > mean that it isn't a bad idea. > > RFC 2616 was not written with the "semantic web" in mind, > wasn't intended to solve the "semantic web"'s design problems > for how to use URIs to represent abstract concepts, and > so trying to do a close reading of the words (at least > some of which were written by me) is -- I can claim -- > a futile exercise. Well said. Tim
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