- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:21:36 +0100
- To: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- Cc: XML-uri@w3.org
At 06:57 PM 9/7/00 +0100, Miles Sabin wrote: >Graham Klyne wrote, > > I suggest that a URI serves the same purpose in web > > architecture that a noun serves in the architecture of most > > human languages. > >I don't think that quite right, but if it was, it'd imply, >quite rightly IMO, that URIs are often inherently vague and >ambiguous ... the classic (English) example 'bank'. I accept that URIs don't exhibit homonyms (homographs) that often occur with words in natural language, but I think the underlying point still stands. #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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