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Re: Assumptions about URIs

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• Subject: Re: Assumptions about URIs
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 09:13:37 -0500
• Cc: John Cowan <cowan@m...>, Bent Rasmussen <n2i@h...>, xml-dev@l...
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John F Schlesinger wrote:

> John Cowan said: "On this basis, "John Cowan" is a non-URI name of *me*,
> whereas mailto:cowan@c..."; is a URI name of *one of my mailboxes*."
> 
> Is 'A URI name' an oxymoron when applied to a URL? There is a danger of
> getting names and references mixed up here (not to speak of 'definite
> descriptions').


I was not distinguishing here between names and references.  My point
was the distinction between referents.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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