ah, it's owned because the community agrees that is the way we work,
it's not a legal ownership. That was my confusion.
On 15/06/11 12:14, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A URI
has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to, but
I'm not sure you can own an identifier.
http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-assignment
Cheers,
Michael
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On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:58, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
Picking up on comment by Richard, but forking the thread
"Would you agree that Facebook are the owners of this URI?"
Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A URI
has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to, but
I'm not sure you can own an identifier.
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