- From: Nikunj R. Mehta <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:42:25 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:53 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Julian Reschke wrote: >> >> [...] there are parts of HTML5 which *do* use the traditional >> definition: >> >> "A URL is a string used to identify a resource." -- HTML5, Section >> 2.5.1, <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#terminology-0> >> (the >> fragid may be instable...) > > This is actually intended to refer to "bag of bits". It identifies a > bag > of bits in the same way that a telephone number identifies a person. > Sure, > if you call a number at different times you might end up with > different > people, but you're still using a phone number to identify a person, > you > just don't know which one until you try to use the phone. > In real life, phone numbers are not used to identify people - government issued IDs are. This analogy is completely bogus and appears disingenuous. Let's see how you answer this question: Where does Ian Hickson live on the Web? 1. http://hixie.ch/ 2. http://www.google.com/search?q=ian+hickson&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky > It may be that you disagree with the meaning used for the word > "identify" > here as well; it's being used in the sense of "give enough > information to > obtain", not the sense "provide a name for" (the latter being the > meaning > often used in Semantic Web circles for the word "identify"). > Giving enough information about something is not the same as identifying. No textbook or dictionary uses the former meaning. Nor can I can understand why you are creating a new abstraction for the meaning of "identify" and creating yet more confusion for those of us who understood what "identify" meant. Nikunj http://o-micron.blogspot.com
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