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Re: Best Practice for URI construction?

• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Subject: Re: Best Practice for URI construction?
• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:44:54 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20051210193334.18627gmx1@m...>
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* Michael Kay wrote:
>> Many of the resources in my work are non-electronic, e.g. persons,  
>> organisations, equipment. The resources got URIs. The resources (or,  
>> if you like: the representations of them) are accessible in a  
>> RESTafarian way. 
>
>Well, I'm a person, and I don't have a URI, and I'm not accessible on the
>web. The internet will get you only as far as my inbox, and my inbox is not
>a representation of me.

Resources don't determine which URIs do or do not identify them,
that's for URI owners to decide. As a URI owner, I decide that
http://xmlns.bjoern.hoehrmann.de/people/Michael_Kay/0.9/ identifies
you. Now you are accessible on the web.
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