Pat, (01)
There are very intelligent people working on the W3C, and
they are certainly as knowledgeable about these issues as
anybody could be. (02)
> But in this sense it is *necessarily* a location identifier,
> so its pointless to worry about how to change that. (03)
I have no desire to change it. But it would make things
clearer if they just said explicitly that it is a location
identifier, not a content identifier. (04)
> Look at the header of any W3C official document, for example,
> which has 'this version', 'last version' and 'latest version'
> URIs. The 'latest version' URI identifies a 'moving' resource;
> the others are fixed to particular bit-images, but even those
> are not addresses, but rather documents. In fact, in many cases
> they have been moved from 'active' storage to archives as the
> W3C reorganizes its website. (05)
That is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Those conventions
could be specified with a suitable language for specifying
metadata. RDF comes to mind as a possibility. (06)
> A copy is not *identical* to its master. It is a copy of it. (07)
A perfect copy (which is possible for computer data) should be
indistinguishable from the original. Without metadata, there
would be no way to tell which was the "master". (08)
> Of course, many people just build websites in the easiest way,
> which is to add a file locator to a base URI to make a new URI.
> I confess that I do this myself quite often. (09)
If that's what everybody does, why pretend that a URI is
anything other than a location identifier? Each web page
can have its own metadata to specify how it should be
interpreted. (010)
John (011)
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