[sc34wg3] CTM - Notation for subject identifiers / locators

Robert Barta rho at devc.at
Tue Jan 29 04:28:15 EST 2008


On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:36:26PM +0100, Lars Heuer wrote:
> Why do we need a indicator for subject identifier at all? In the
> current CTM draft every IRI is an subject identifier iff it is not
> prefixed by "=".

Yes, but I remember that it took myself weeks until I had wrapped my
mind around it coming from a different angle. You came up with this
(correct) observation 2005.

> IMO the "=" for subject locators is nicer, because it indicates that
> the resource *is* (=) the subject.

Definitely. And my experience shows that this is also the less
frequent case.

\rho


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