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RE: URIs harmful

• To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@a...>,"John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:36:31 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: URIs harmful

> No, the URI identifies what people use it to identify.  In this case,
> the W3C.  Invoking GET on that URI returns a hypermedia document, but
> that's different than saying that the URI identifies the document.
The
> document is a representation of the identified resource.

Again, completely specious.  Nobody uses "http://www.w3.org/Consortium"
in place of "W3C".  People who use "http://www.w3.org/Consortium" are
quite clear that they have identified "A hypermedia dispenser which
serves up hypermedia about W3C".  It is deceptive to claim otherwise.

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