• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: URIs == the Web was: Re: quarantining namespaces
• From: jborden@a...
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:16:00 +0000
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...

Paul Prescod wrote:

> 
> I say that *each* HTTP URI is *both* a locator *and* an identifier.
> Mozilla uses it as a locator when you click the link. Google uses it as
> an identifier when it looks up a cached page by URI. This is the
> "contemporary" or "duality view". This view seems more powerful.
> 

Violently agree. Many folks complain that this view conflates "name" and "locator", yet indeed this so-called conflation is exactly what makes the Web interesting, and why it uniquely does what it does.

This is the Web's most defining characteristic(IMNSHO).

Jonathan

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