Wachob, Gabe wrote:
<snip/>
>
> Definitely a fascinating line of thought that dovetails in some ways with
> our motivations. Specifically, relative to this document, I think we'd
> describe the XRI effort as a "name indicates meaning" approach to
> identifying real world resources.
> <snip/>
So, to (somewhat) encapsulate the URI thread w/the TAG presently, I
conclude the following:
URI's are references, which take additional meaning based on the use of
the reference (eg: xml namespace of xsi describing my car vs an
identifier of my car vs my BLOG homepage which contains (a fragement)
reference to my car).
So, not only does a URI, generally have metadata regardless of the
context of the use of the reference, it also has additional metadata
which describes a particular instance of the reference.
If there is agreement on this interpretation, then might i suggest
adding the following to the 3rd requirement (metadata) in the draft req's:
"Allow for unique, dereferencable representations of metadata in context
with the citation of a URI"
RDF-like URI's may already accomodate for this..I'll have to look more
deeply there, however.
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