RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (?!)

From
Bullard, Claude L (Len) <>
To
'Mike Brown' <>,
Date
2002-07-19T21:38:30Z
ID
<2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B6BB@HQ5>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] URIs harmful (?!)
Who's afraid of Schrodinger's Cat?
Schrodinger's Cat!
Schrodinger's Cat!
His box is dark and is face is fat.
I WANT a Cat Like THAT!
He's JUST a Cat Like THAT!

The URzed is ALWAYS dereferenceable. 
You may get a dead cat back, but 
you can't know that without opening 
the box.

len

From: Mike Brown [mailto:]

I can see how using a URI for its syntax and not its semantics undermines
interoperability. But I don't see how URLs fix that. If I want an identifier,
it might be just as advantageous as it is harmful to use an identifier that
might also be usable in other contexts, be they temporal or systematic.