Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?

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Bjoern Hoehrmann <>
To
Michael Kay <>
Date
2005-12-10T19:44:54Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?
* Michael Kay wrote:
>> Many of the resources in my work are non-electronic, e.g. persons,  
>> organisations, equipment. The resources got URIs. The resources (or,  
>> if you like: the representations of them) are accessible in a  
>> RESTafarian way. 
>
>Well, I'm a person, and I don't have a URI, and I'm not accessible on the
>web. The internet will get you only as far as my inbox, and my inbox is not
>a representation of me.

Resources don't determine which URIs do or do not identify them,
that's for URI owners to decide. As a URI owner, I decide that
http://xmlns.bjoern.hoehrmann.de/people/Michael_Kay/0.9/ identifies
you. Now you are accessible on the web.
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