Re: WebID definitions and specs: conceptual vs functional

On 3/22/13 10:14 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
>     Re-reading ISSUE-55 just now, I saw again the quote DanBri put
>     in from TimBL's DesignIssue "Axioms" [f] --
>
>        "There is a lot of flexibility and growth to be gained by
>        allowing any sort of URI, not one from a particular scheme,
>        in most circumstances. Similarly, one should not make
>        assumptions about the schemes involved. This is a facet of
>        the particular parameters about how the technology is  used.
>        The choice of type URI in a [practical] use of a language is
>        an important flexibility point."
>
>     [f] <http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html>
>
>     -- and I was inspired to go look at Axions once more myself.
>
>
> +1 Axioms make awesome reading
>
> If you will note the TOII (Test of independent invention) you'll come 
> to the conclusion that in the long term a WebID can only have one 
> reasonable definition and that is a "URI that denotes an Agent" -- in 
> the sort to medium term the definition will be a variation of this, in 
> order to get things done.

+1



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