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Re: URIs harmful

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: URIs harmful
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:09:17 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3D408392.2070705@t...>; from tbray@t... on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:02:42PM -0700
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Tim,

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:02:42PM -0700, Tim Bray wrote:
> There is no way in the existing architecture of the Web to find out what 
> the resource *is*.

Sure there is, concensus.  RDF helps machines process assertions, but
humans have been making and processing assertions with HTML since day
one.  You just need a way of finding out what assertions have been made
using the URI, http://www.w3.org.  Google to the rescue;

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=link:http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ew3%2Eorg%2F

Tim told me that he thought that http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
identified the W3C.  Google suggests that most people who use that
URI, do use it this way, so there's an issue there.  But *many* more
(roughly, 64000 to 1250) use http://www.w3.org as the W3C's URI.

As Roy said, URIs, like words, mean what people use them to mean.

MB
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Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred)
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.               distobj@a...
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