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> If I order pizza, I expect pizza. Of course if you order pizza in e.g. New Haven CT, it may not automatically come with red sauce. A major benefit of using a URI to refer to something is that you can dereference it to get a definition. For example we define: http://www.rddl.org/purposes#validation and this URI represents the concept "DTD validation". This term can be used without needing dereferencing but in the case of a dispute, dereferencing can arbitrate, or at least provide evidence, as to the intended use of the term. e.g. you may have: http://terms.org/foods#pizza http://terms.org/foods#red-sauce-pizza http://terms.org/foolds#white-clam-pizza etc etc. indeed if the dereferenced URL has both Italian and English prose, you might even be able to have an intelligent resolution of your dispute when the white clam pizza arrives -- on the other hand you'd be best off just paying for it and eating it. -Jonathan
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