On 11/11/10 9:00 AM, David Booth wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 07:23 +0100, Jiří Procházka wrote:
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I think it is flawed trying to enforce "URI == 1 thing"
Exactly right. The "URI == 1 thing" notion is myth #1 in "Resource
Identity and Semantic Extensions: Making Sense of Ambiguity":
http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/paper.html#myth1
It is a good *goal*, but it is inherently unachievable.
Are you implying that a URI -- an Identifier -- doesn't have a Referent
(singular)? If so, what is the URI identifying?
In my world view:
Identification != Representation. The fact that I can de-reference an
Identifier en route to obtaining Data doesn't make the Identifier a
Representation of the Data. It's a conduit to the Data.
[SNIP]
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