- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:02:06 -0400 (EDT)
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- cc: "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote: > 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). I'm inclined to agree about the modeling style, though I'm not sure who it is that would have to agree with your recommended modeling style. Is this a matter for individual Web content creators to decide, ie. I could chose to manage http://danbri.org/ names one way and http://danbri.com/ names another? Or is it a modeling style that you're encouraging eg. the URI spec editors to adopt as a common-for-everyone model of URI/content binding? If the former, my concern over DanC's claim still stands: URI-centric metadata apps will need to take into account the likelihood that some folk won't adopt your preferred style of name management... Dan
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