At 02:09 PM 6/8/01 -0400, Hal Lockhart wrote:
>I assume you mean retrieving an assertion by dereferencing the URI.
Yes.
>We certainly want to be able to request "the assertion with the ID of X"
>whether or not X is a URI. That's what started this discussion.
If X looks like a URI (particularly an http-scheme one), people *will* try
to dereference it. Cf. XML namespaces. So if we intend it *not* to be an
"address" as well as an "identifier," we should not use URIs for it.
Eve
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