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

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:40:22AM +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
> At 06:57 PM 6/2/00 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
> > > Au contraire.  The "data:" scheme is the only one for which it is *known*
> > > that if two URIs are different, the resources are different too.
> >
> >data:,abcd and data:text/plain,abcd are different, but identify the
> >'same' resource.
> 
> If I have understood the debate correctly, there is a strong constituency 
> that would say they identify *different* resources that happen to have the 
> *same* value, or content, or yield the same result when certain functions 
> are applied, or...

100% exactly right...

-MM

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