- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:08:10 +0100
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: <xml-uri@w3.org>
Two dumb questions, if I may... At 09:50 AM 5/30/00 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > > > "If the name X and the name Y are different, > > then we know the resource identified by X is > > different from the resource identified by Y" > > >I disagree. In fact, I would say that you can't make a system >which scales globally in a decentralized way with that >tautology. > >[[Two problems with vocabulary, by the way: >(1) My definition of a resource is that exactly identified by a URI and so >URIs and resources are in 1:1 mapping. These two statements seem to be in contradiction: if X and Y are different names (URIs) that identify the same resource, then URIs and resources are not in 1:1 mapping. What am I missing? > > "If the name X and the name Y are the same, > > then we know the resource identified by X and > > the resource identified by Y are the same." > > >This we do have. I have seen this asserted a few times, but keep on asking myself: what about the 'file:' URI scheme? (I hear word of other schemes that may similarly depend on local context for their interpretation.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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