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RE: URIs and Names on the Web

• To: "'jc2astro@h...'" <jc2astro@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: URIs and Names on the Web
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:06:46 -0500

Location and name are two values one can 
evaluate in the process of assigning an identity 
value.   Locations change and names have aliases, 
so other means (eg, reliable observation) are 
also sometimes used to assert that the identity 
is still valid.  What you say works until someone 
sets out to spoof a system.  Identity is assigned 
based on evaluating evidence which can include 
location(s) and name(s); not a synonym.

len

From: Jimmy Cerra [mailto:jc2astro@h...]

Like when you're called by the good doctor's office and they verify your
name (AKA identity) by referring to you physical address (AKA location)?

To me, location and name are both synonyms for identity; locations and names
just describe identity in a different way.  Thus, it should be valid to use
one or the other whenever the identity of **a thing** is required.

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