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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 10:07:37 -0500
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Michael Kay wrote:


> Phone numbers identify phones, not people.


Fair enough; I was wrong to speak of persons.

 
> Not necessarily the same phone at different times, not necessarily a
> one-to-one mapping, but when you make a phone call, a phone somewhere rings,
> and the caller has no control over who might answer it.


But your claim was that tel: URIs referred to telephone *numbers*.
I contend that they refer to telephone lines, the recipients of
phone calls.

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