Re: Moratorium proposal

>>By definition: An absolute URI identifies a resource. A resource is an
>>abstract point in  absolute URI space.
>
>So far, so good.  But the past month or so seems pretty good evidence that
>there is room for reasonable people to disagree about how to apply this to
>namespaces, languages, schemata, etc.

Yes. But that's not something that the URI spec can or should address;
it'll be a higher-level architecture and specifications describing it.

That's assuming there turns out to be a single coherent answer that fits a
wide range of cases. We may find that there are many such architectures,
just as there are many protocols built on top of the core TCP/IP
technology, each having its own role to play.

If you want to form a working group to try to nail down TBL's concept of
the semantic web as an implementable architecture rather than an abstract
vision, go for it. But until and unless that is designed and widely agreed
to, I think it's very premature to assume that it will define URIs rather
than being defined in terms of URIs.

Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2000 08:39:30 UTC