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Mark Baker wrote: > > > Let us define a subject as anything that can be talked about. Then > > subjects come in two flavors: those which are resources (with native > > URIs) and those which aren't. The W3C home page is a resource, the > > W3C is not. They have different properties and can't be blindly identified. > > This is not a definition of "resource" that I am familiar with. RFC > 2396 says (authoritatively); > > "A resource can be anything that has identity." > > The W3C has identity, as does its web page. So both are resources, and > can therefore be identified by URIs. Moreover, they can both be > identified by HTTP URIs, because HTTP semantics are also defined to > operate on anything with identity. Okay, but how *do* we work around the use/mention problem where an assertion could refer either to the W3C or to its home page. 95% of the time it is okay to ignore this issue and use the same URI for both but occasionally we will want to say something about one or the other. I can't think of a case off the top of my head but... Paul Prescod
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