On May 10, 2006, at 12:01 PM, John Panzer wrote:
There is a separate question lurking here: Whether or not we mandate multiple URIs, or allow them, or ban content negotiation... is there one resource hiding behind the URI(s) or two?
That is an unanswerable question; the Web architecture allows you to say that two URIs that are character-for-character identical identify the same resource, and in a few cases, that two URIs that are slightly different can be shown to be "equivalent". But beyond that, the Web gives no help. It turns out that http://www.tbray.org/ index.html and http://www.tbray.org/ always produce the same representation, but do they identify the same resource? Whichever answer you give, I can quickly make it wrong. See http://www.w3.org/ TR/webarch/#identifiers-comparison -Tim
