- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:44:26 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- CC: abrahams@acm.org, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
John Cowan wrote: > "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > > > [T]hough we may be able to say > > definitively that two URI refer to the same thing, we can never say > > definitively that they refer to different things unless we compare the > > resources themselves. > > Even that does not suffice. There is simply no way based on URIs(*) alone > to tell if two URIs refer to the same thing or not. You can only > draw that conclusion from some authoritative source of meta-information. Sorry for my lack of clarity. What I meant to say was that we can say definitively that two URIs are character-for-character identical and therefore refer to the same thing. Your statement is of course correct. Paul Abrahams
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