- From: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:01:41 -0400
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:58 PM, ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Jonathan: > This is useful. > So, you send W to a server and the server responds with ND(W). > The function W-> ND(W) is whatever the server implements. You > could get different mappings from different servers > So, it has to be receiver/user beware. > > The server MAY say something like "my NDs are authoritative based on > OED" and if they are not you have legal recourse but that is outside the > protocol. > > I don't know why you go down this alley. I don't think it is relevant. > >> Obviously the creation of the protocol won't change the meaning of >> messages written in English before the protocol definition was >> published, and it will not have a role in the meaning of new messages >> where the author of the message is not aware of the protocol. Larry claimed that I believed meaning was determined by dictionaries, and he went to some effort to try to straighten me out. I wrote this "obviously" sentence, which I agree should not have been required, in order to clarify that I do not believe this. Jonathan > All the best, Ashok >
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