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Patrick Stickler wrote: > >... > > With all due respect, Paul, this is a pretty weak argument. > > "They work for me, for what I do, so they must work for you, too" Rather: "they work for me and if you have practical problems you'll have to explain them to me because I don't see them." > Those who are concerned with dissemination of content for display > in browsers don't see the problems with URIs. Those who want to > use URIs to model knowledge see them all to well. I'm sure this is true. I was proceeding more from Simon's point of view which I perceive to be the opposite of yours. He sees the conceptual generalization from URLs to URIs to be a problem. I think it is healthy and productive to think of "those strings" as identifiers, not locations, in part because it allows knowledge modeling. Paul Prescod
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