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Bullard, Claude L wrote:
> It is not healthy to be an ostrich among the coyotes.
>
> Is or is not a URI dereferenceable? If you say,
> it depends, you have your head in the sand.
I would say that a URL is dereferencable, unequivocably.
It locates a resource.
But URLs are out of fashion. The current mode
is to Identify resources, not Locate them. URIs are
used in several W3C specs -- RDF and XMLNS being the
most prominent -- as opaque, atomic identifiers
that have no semantics other than identity.
If you say that a URI must be dereferencable just
because it looks like a URL, then you haven't been
paying attention.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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