Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>

>> You keep talking about "resolution" (by which you mean "access"),
>> but that isn't the issue in assigning a URI to a namespace.  Because
>> a mailbox has a URI, it is possible to write metadata statements about
>> the mailbox, using RDF syntax, which applications can read.  There is
>> no requirement for accessing (or posting to) a URI in order to find
>> out things about the resource identified by the URI.
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>My point exactly! So if you want to use that URI as your namespace name
>then whether or not its internal scheme is about mailboxes doesn't
>matter. Its a perfectly valid name for a namespace (sans the persistence
>requirement).


We are losing track of reality. A mailto: URI necessarily identifies
an internet mailbox.  A mailbox is a mailbox. A namespace is a namesapce.
A mailbox can be a group-mailbox. A mailbox can be a personal-mailbox.
A mailbox can NOT be a namespace.

isa (x, mailbox) => not (isa(x, namespace))

I can make assertions about a mailbox. (This mailbox is the source of much
spam)
I can make assertions about a namespace (this namespace is a sublanguage of
that namespace).
But namespaces and mailboxes are distinct.

You can GET a rendition of a namespace.  You can't POST to it.
You can POST to a mailbox.  Your mail client tries to craete a rendistiopon
of it but normally mangaes only a new mai lmessage, instead of soemthing
like a vcard with a list of messaegs you know about to and from the mailbox)

>Maybe we're running around in circles here but I think some of these
>points are important because I see some incorrect assumptions about URIs
>floating about. This thread being one of them...



Well, you've cleared up a million but you've made one too. :-)
timbl

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