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At 10:01 AM 5/28/1999 -0500, Paul Prescod wrote: >It is encouraging because it is long needed. It is disturbing because I >believe it identifies a key problem with the Web (or with my understanding >of the Web). > >This document refers to the URI specification in its definition of >"resource": "...anything that has identity." This is troubling because >there is no definition of identity. In the HyTime and object oriented >worlds, I believe that the defining characteristic of things with identity >is that you can take two references and determine if they refer to the >same object. I take this definition of resource as reflecting a fairly sophisticated understanding of the reality of identifying and naming objects. A single URN identifying an abstract work may identify a variety of physical manifestations of the work. The physical manifestations retrieved may vary radically based on the social/technical context of the person resolving a URN. Two different URNs may refer to the same abstract work, and retrieve the same or different physical manifestations depending on the work identified, context of the resolver, etc. When you have two URNs identifying an abstract concept, I don't see how you can reliably determine computationally that they both identify the same thing. Nonetheless, we need the ability to identify abstract works. The definition of URIs, encompassing both URNs and URLs, had to deal with this need. Jerome McDonough -- jmcdonou@l... | (......) Library Systems Office, 386 Doe, U.C. Berkeley | \ * * / Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-5168 | \ <> / "Well, it looks easy enough...." | \ -- / SGNORMPF!!! -- From the Famous Last Words file | |||| xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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