* Dan Brickley wrote: >The definition says, in effect, "The Web is an information space in >which we use URIs when identifying things". It does not rule out >other, complementary, identification mechanisms, nor does it equate the >Web with any specific set of entities.
Right, nor does it say that an item of interest identified by a "Uniform Resource Identifier" is in this information space. People not familiar with IRIs do not consider items of interest on their local hard drive identified by a file:/// URL items in the information space "web" and would consequently think that using <author><web>file:///</web></author> is improper use of the element. That's not the case, so we have <uri> -- wrong <iri> -- unknown to many users <web> -- misleading to many users I suggest confronting users with something unknown is better than misleading them. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
