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Re: [webfinger] FW: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08.txt

Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> Fri, 21 December 2012 22:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [webfinger] FW: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08.txt
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On 12/21/12 4:38 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
> No. The I in URI stands for Identifier. URIs identify resources, 
> that's what they're for. -T

I know the "I" stands for "Identifier" but these "Identifiers" are being 
used to "denote" entities (things), in this context.

This subtle tweak has also been adopted in the Semantic Web discourse 
realm (note latest RDF specs [1]) as a mechanism for adding clarity to 
the function or URIs.

Links:

1. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html -- 
see how denotation with regards to the function of URIs .

Kingsley
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Kingsley Idehen 
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Could this:
>
>      WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other
>        entities on the Internet that are identified by a URI [6] or
>     IRI [7]
>        using standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) [2] methods
>     over a
>        secure transport [14].
>
>     become:
>
>      WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other
>        entities on the Internet that are *denoted* by a URI [6] or IRI
>     [7]. Actual information retrieval uses
>        standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) [2] methods over a
>        secure transport [14].
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