[sc34wg3] Subject Locators

[Murray Altheim]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * Jan Algermissen
[...]
> | You seem to think that using a URI as a subject locator gives you
> | the ability to say: "this URI refers to a some concept that is in
> | fact a document (bits and bytes)."
> 
> No, no, no. This is about what each topic map is *using* the URI to
> do. That's something else.

Exactly -- we are using the URI as the means of addressing, but
the link is what carries the semantics. We are as I just wrote
characterizing our links. What URIs mean or do or say or eat for
breakfast has *nothing* to do with this.

Murray

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