- From: Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@valinet.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:47:23 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- CC: abrahams@acm.org, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
John Cowan wrote: > "Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > > > ``A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of characters that > > identifies an abstract or physical resource. A URI is absolute, i.e., its meaning > > does not depend on the context in which it appears.'' > > The first sentence is true and useful. The second sentence is false: a URI > *is* absolute, but is not therefore necessarily independent of its context, > as in the case of mailto: and file: URIs. OK. Can you come up with a replacement for the i.e. that describes, in a short simple phrase, what ``absolute'' means? Or (this is the possibility I dread) is it the case that we don't really know what it means? Paul Abrahams
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