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Formally, "len" is an alias, a nickname, so the
source of authority is not the bullards, it
is my mother who called me that as an endearment,
and I by assent, adopted it into my signature
for reasons totally unrelated to my mother's
use: I dislike the sound of a Southern pronunciation
of "Claude", my so-called given name on the
registration of birth. So the meaning changed
based on the source.
We are quibbling notation. If the authority
assigns the name, they make the assertion behaviorally.
It is meaningless until used but the presence
of the name is the record of authoritative
assertion.
Rats! We are becoming lawyers.
len
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> The name inside the name documents the authority.
> I have to accept it as being asserted. I don't
> have to accept what it asserts. The URI agreement
> is the systemic agreement of the former. The latter
> is accepted or negotiated.
I don't understand this. Names don't *assert* anything
at all: they are nouns, not verbs. But URI names aren't
totally meaningless, any more than "len bullard" is totally
meaningless: it notes the source of authority for the name,
viz. the bullards.
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