What does identify mean in this case? 
 
This is a philosophical question which given the voluminous threads that have gone on over t
he past weeks in WWW-TAG has not been clearly answered to me even by the highest echelon of 
the W3C membership. 
 
Quick question: If http://WWW.25hoursaday.COM and http://www.25hoursaday.com can represent t
wo distinct and totally different namespaces in XML, how can they then both identify the sam
e resource? 
 
Now as URLs using the HTTP scheme that are resolved by DNS, the same document should be retr
ieved over the network via each one but this is not the same thing. 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Manos Batsis [mailto:m.batsis@[...].gr] 
Sent: Mon 8/12/2002 12:33 AM 
To: Joe English; Simon St.Laurent 
Cc: xml-dev@[...].org 
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Comparable considered necessary


	>  -----Original Message-----
	>  From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@[...].com]
	
	>  "Are X and Y the same URI?" is answerable.  "Do X and Y identify
	>  the same resource?" is not.
	
	If the resource is retrievable, it should be the same, otherwise we have
	a huge problem. What is missing from the puzzle today is a clean
	separation of retrievable VS non-retrievable resources, with namespaces
	being the greatest example...
	
	Manos
	
	
	
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