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• Subject: Re: URIs harmful
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:19:40 -0700
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Joshua Allen wrote:

> On the other hand, it is exceedingly poor form to use identifiers from
> the HTTP scheme for things which you don't intend to be dereferenced
> (via HTTP synchronous GET, no less).

You might be on to something here.

How about for things that you don't have any representations for right 
now but plan to in the near future?  How about things that you don't 
have any way of representing right now, but you might someday?  What are 
some things that fall into the category "which you don't intend to be 
dereferenced"?  -Tim

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