On 2012-03 -24, at 00:47, Pat Hayes wrote: > I am sympathetic, but... > > On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote: > >> >> The proposal is that URI X denotes what the publisher of X says it denotes, >> whether it returns 200 or not. > > And what if the publisher simply does not say anything about what the URi > denotes? After all, something like 99.999% of the URIs on the planet lack > this information. What, if anything, can be concluded about what they denote? > The http-range-14 rule provides an answer to this which seems reasonably > intuitive. What would be your answer? Or do you think there should not be any > 'default' rule in such cases?
Exactly. For example, To take an arbitrary one of the trillions out there, what does http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=2372108&pageno=11 identify, there being no RDF in it? What can I possibly do with that URI if the publisher has not explicitly allowed me to use it to refer to the online book, under your proposal? > > Pat >
