- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:36:30 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > Not so: every URL is a URI[1]; every URI identifies exactly > one resource[2]; hence every URL identifies exactly one resource. [snip] > [2] "An identifier is an object that can act as a reference to > something that has identity." > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt I have no problem with this. However, it is not clear to me why distinct URLs must refer to distinct resources. My contention is that ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO/8859-1.TXT and http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO/8859-1.TXT represent the same *resource*, not merely the same entity body. Both URIs refer to the mapping between the Unicode and ISO 8859-1 character sets. Or at least that this could be so, if the Unicode Consortium said it was so. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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