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• To: 'Uche Ogbuji' <uche.ogbuji@f...>, Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful (was RE: Article: Keeping pace with James Clark)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:24:26 -0500
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...

No.  Unless you build a means and tell the parser to invoke 
it, an FPI is a dumb string.

A URzed is always dereferenceable.  If we accept that, then what 
we call it and the semantic issues go away.   One will 
get back a document (RDDL, XML Catalog) or just a 404 
document.  The list there is what the fuss should be about. 
But as long as there is a protocol morph on the front of 
that string, the system says, "I can dereference this because 
the string says I can unless you say I can't" and how do we 
tell it not too?

Enough philosophical ostrichism.  It is ALWAYS dereferenceable.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...]

However, if it is at least reasonable to look at URLs as identifiers, then I 
think that all the problems you, Len and Simon state are unfortunate, but 
merely the symptoms of the choices of one arbiter of URI usage (the W3C), and 
not a symptom of fundamental uselessness of URIs themselves.  If we'd gone 
with FPIs instead, we'd have the same problems in variant forms.

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