"Abstract" URIs

John Cowan wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Not at all.  I said that I, as well as my home page, could be labeled
> with a URI.  But labeling me and my home page with the *same* URI
> leads to contradictions.  For example, the year of creation of my
> home page is 1998 or thereabouts, whereas *my* year of creation is
> 1958 or thereabouts.

I would say that you are probably:

 http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/

and your home page is probably:

 http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/index.html

But if you do a GET on each of them you happen to get an identical
resource. Alternately you could simply choose not to reify your homepage
at all.

 Paul Prescod