RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (was RE: [xml-dev] Article: Keeping pa ce with James Clark)

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> From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:] 
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> A more contentious issue is that they don't have a unique 
> referent and therefore, are troublesome for RDF.

Just build the semantic web on top of RDDL. 

The problem is never going to go away in a distributed naming system.
But we can just do simple behavioural layering; we allow RDF reasoners
who need more info or are confused to throw exceptions that get handled
by web machinery. Check out
<http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/muller93agent.html> or even Peter Stone's
robocup to  ways of doing it.

Bill de hÓra

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