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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 23:20, Paul Prescod wrote: > John Cowan wrote: > >... > > > > Not at all. I said that I, as well as my home page, could be labeled > > with a URI. But labeling me and my home page with the *same* URI > > leads to contradictions. For example, the year of creation of my > > home page is 1998 or thereabouts, whereas *my* year of creation is > > 1958 or thereabouts. > > I would say that you are probably: > > http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/ > > and your home page is probably: > > http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/index.html > > But if you do a GET on each of them you happen to get an identical > resource. Alternately you could simply choose not to reify your homepage > at all. I've just registered myself a URL. I am now urn:oid:1.2.826.0.1.4062548.2.1, more properly written as a labelled OID { iso(1) member-body(2) gb(826) national(0) eng-ltd(1) warhead(4062548) private(2) alaric(1) }. However, it's not resolveable because *I* am not connected to the Internet. I could have one that acts as a lame proxy containing data about me that I've uploaded, but that's not me! Also, check out the PIN namespace - http://rfc.net/rfc3043.html > > Paul Prescod > ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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