- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:53:15 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
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. 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"). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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