Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-daigle-uri-std-00.txt

Dan Brickley wrote:

> The text you cite, [2], leaves open the question of whether the
> 'something' that is referenced may differ over time. At any tick of the
> clock, the identifier 'can' act as a reference to some thing; as time
> passes and the world changes, it might subsequently fail to refer, or pick
> out a different thing-with-identity.

This is so in principle, but I believe it's better to model this as
a matter of rebinding the resource-to-entity-body relationship.
That way the URI-to-resource binding is constant, and the resource-to-entity-body
relationship can vary (or not exist).

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Received on Thursday, 7 September 2000 12:51:56 UTC