Re: Linkbases, Topic Maps,and RDF Knowledge Bases -- help me understand, please

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

At 06:26 PM 07/04/01 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>I think that one of the ongoing mysteries of URI processing is the lack of 
>a concept of equivalence.
>
>This fueled the relative URI namespace debate last year, and continues to 
>raise new problems at every opportunity.

Really?  It doesn't seem to have stopped the Web technologies from
turning the world inside out.  Maybe I'm simple-minded, but the
equivalence rules from the RFCs have never really gotten in my
way in practical terms.  Can we hear about some of these new 
problems? -Tim