• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:22:40 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3BF197D3.80504@r...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:59 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> Right.  If you grab many of the resources at www.weather.com today, for
> example, you will get completely different entity bodies from what
> you would have gotten yesterday.  That's the idea; people want a
> particular URI (= resource) to specify the current (varying) weather.

I think that as domain names and URL's become more of the social fabric that 
they'll become increasingly less important in and of themselves. Even now, 
they're more or less just a means to an end.

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