• To: ext Jonathan Borden <jborden@a...>, Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>, Paul Prescod <paul@p...>, XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: URIs are simply names was: Re: "Abstract"URIs
• From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@n...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:54:55 +0200
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On 2002-02-13 14:31, "ext Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...> wrote:


> Paul is entirely correct.
> 
> A URI is simply a name for a thing, whatever that thing may be. A name is
> not the thing that it names

How about 'data:foo'? Or do you consider that a self-referential name?

There is an entire class of URIs which are also resources and
do not denote anything else.

C.f. http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pstickler-uri-taxonomy-00.txt

> URIs are names.

Some are.

> )note new email address -- which refers to the same person as
> jborden@m...)

No. An email address does not refer to a person.

Does sales@a... refer to some person named 'sales'?

An email address is just that. A place to put mail.

Cheers,

Patrick

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