On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:51:32 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote: > Paul Winkler: > > OTOH, it's pretty obvious why this is the case. > > Imagine if it *did* have to resolve to something. > > What would that mean? > > That's a slightly perplexing detail even with the > situation as it is. What if the URI *does* resolve as > a URL? Would a host that looked up the URL and did > something with the results (doesn't matter what, but > let's imagine that the host defines the thing it will do > and does it consistently) be committing a fundamental error?
There is no particular reason for a machine to ever resolve that URI, it's just an identifier, but a human might well want to. - Steve
