• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: stupid URI tricks was: Re: URIs harmful
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@a...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:20:13 -0400
• Cc: <jc2astro@h...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• References: <200207251127.HAA10882@m...>

John Cowan wrote:

[[
Jonathan Borden scripsit:

> No. Every URI _always_ identifies a resource.

Only if you allow that some things with URI syntax aren't really URIs.
For example, "http://www.cs.usyrtis.mars/rfc/rfc32767.txt" doesn't
represent any resource at present:  there is no University of Syrtis
to serve as the authority, and the RFC sequence has only reached the
3000s.
]]

oh right. I suppose the URI has to be 'legal' or 'valid' or needs some other
such descriptor attached to it.

> The point of the above is that the representation of a conceptual resource
> "a thing without a represenation" could always be the text: "a thing
without
> a representation", therefor there one can always provide a representation
> for any resource (if one so chooses).

Ceci n'est pas une représentation.  :-)
]]

:-))

Jonathan

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