• To: 'Mike Brown' <mike@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful (?!)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:38:30 -0500

Who's afraid of Schrodinger's Cat?
Schrodinger's Cat!
Schrodinger's Cat!
His box is dark and is face is fat.
I WANT a Cat Like THAT!
He's JUST a Cat Like THAT!

The URzed is ALWAYS dereferenceable. 
You may get a dead cat back, but 
you can't know that without opening 
the box.

len

From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike@s...]

I can see how using a URI for its syntax and not its semantics undermines
interoperability. But I don't see how URLs fix that. If I want an identifier,
it might be just as advantageous as it is harmful to use an identifier that
might also be usable in other contexts, be they temporal or systematic.

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