Henry Story wrote:
> 
> In my N3 rewriting of the example Service document [1] I came up with 3
> classes: Service, Workspace and Collection.
> 
> - The Service Class one could say clearly has an unique identifier: the
> url at which it was fetched (<> above)
> 
> - The Collection (which seems really to be a Feed in disguise) has an
> href URI to identify it, and James Snell just posted a good reason to
> also add an id there today.
> 
> - But the workspace is problematic. Since a Service document can contain
> any number of workspaces, and each of these can contain any number of
> collections, there is no clear way to identify these across changes.
> What happens to a workspace if it changes title? How is a client to know
> that it has not lost its workspace?
> 

It can't.  There is no way of reliably identifying a workspace within an
introspection document.  Whether or not this will be a problem is unknown.

- James

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