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RE: URIs and Names on the Web

• To: "'Jonathan Borden'" <jborden@a...>, "'James Fuller'" <james.fuller@o...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: URIs and Names on the Web
• From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:27:29 -0400
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• In-reply-to: <02f601c27ee7$f39fda80$0201a8c0@n...>

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan said:
... in the meantime someone else, had published an HTTP URI and
_their_ description has become the definative description of this new
rock
...

Didier replies:
And the rocks has a different name each time it is moved to a new HTTP
server.

Note: This unless we use a kind of HTTP server redirecting the
transaction to the new location and thus providing location
independence. But the main problem with URL is precisely this: location
independence. Since, I lived in several countries and moved quite often
in my life, it would imply that:
a) to know my name you would have to call a name service in order to get
my location dependent name
b) know my place and therefore know my name.
c) I may have more than one name if I live in several places.

Bottom line: a good naming schema provides location independence. A name
should as much as possible be an invariant. Applying the theory of
relativity to naming object is simply not practical :-)

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