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Re: URIs harmful

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: URIs harmful
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:19:56 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200207261213.IAA23367@m...>; from jcowan@r... on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:00:20AM -0400
• References: <20020726080917.D10551@w...> <200207261213.IAA23367@m...>

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:00:20AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Mark Baker scripsit:
> 
> > Tim told me that he thought that http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
> > identified the W3C.  
> 
> Well, okay.  But that URI also identifies a hyperdocument,

No, the URI identifies what people use it to identify.  In this case,
the W3C.  Invoking GET on that URI returns a hypermedia document, but
that's different than saying that the URI identifies the document.  The
document is a representation of the identified resource.

w3.org doesn't return a Content-Location header on a GET to that URI,
meaning that they provide no URI for the document.

MB
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Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred)
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.               distobj@a...
http://www.markbaker.ca        http://www.idokorro.com

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