Re: Question re: URIs

> * Many-to-One - that is, it's possible for many URIs to identify the
> same resource. In this view, it may be helpful to think of URIs as
> identifying *interfaces* to resources, rather than resources
> themselves; i.e., if one asserts that two URIs identify the same
> resource, it really is the same resource.

That's the current position of the TAG:

"Web architecture does not constrain resources to be uniquely named."
  -- http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#identification

-- 
Dan Connolly, experimenting with a webmail client

Received on Sunday, 7 September 2003 19:21:03 UTC