- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:04:45 -0500
- To: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 13:00 -0400, Jonathan Rees wrote: > This message is pursuant to ACTION-312 which I took on at the F2F. > > Roughly speaking, the question is: Does the canon say that the Web is > the authority for http: URI "dereference" (GET), or does it leave open the > possibility of conforming agents using mechanisms that give answers > at variance with what the Web would give? [...] > Summary: [...] > . General advice (AWWW, IAB TC) is that if you "split the web" by making URIs > non-global you are doing something really tragic. A change > in the rules for dereference would theoretically be OK, as long as everyone > made the change in step (ha!). Exactly. That seems like a "yes" answer to the question above, inasmuch as an authority is something that helps you avoid something really tragic. I don't see any contradiction with my reading of webarch; maybe the description of the action should change or something? "Find a path thru the specs that I think contradicts Dan's reading of webarch" -- http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/users/38732 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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