[topicmapmail] Meaning of URIs - ongoing debate on new W3C forum

[Murray Altheim]

Jan Algermissen wrote:
> This draft is somehow relevent to our discussion:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/metaDataInURI-31.html
> 
> "People and software making use of URIs assigned outside of their
>  own authority (i.e. observers) MUST NOT attempt to infer  properties
>  of the referenced resource except as licensed by relevant normative
>  specifications or by URI assignment policies published by the relevant
>  URI assignment authority."

Sorry to waste bandwidth here, but that just makes me laugh. Gad, what
a silly bunch of ideas. Nothing like a little dictatorial hubris.

You can't claim authority on interpretation. Full stop.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

   The world, Bush said, is now riven by "the clearest of divides:
   between those who seek order and those who spread chaos; between
   those who work for peaceful change and those who adopt the methods
   of gangsters; between those who honor the rights of man and those
   who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children
   without mercy or shame. Between these alternatives there is no
   neutral ground."
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/24/MN298975.DTL

   Actions speak louder than words, and I think it's pretty clear
   which side of the divide Bush is on.