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• Subject: RE: URIs harmful
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:59:31 +0100
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <200207250045.UAA08660@m...>
• Organization: Propylon
• Reply-to: <bill.dehora@p...>

> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] 
>
> 4) If you do an HTTP GET on an http: URI, you may or may not 
> get something back.  If you do, the thing you get back is 
> just a representation of the actual thing that the URI 
> identifies; what that actual thing is is decided by the 
> authority creating the URI.  If you don't get anything back, 

> that is because no representation is available.

or being made available.

What are people's opinions on whether the authority which created the
URI can/should change which thing is being named?

Bill de hÓra

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