[tdwg-content] "resolution" of URIs usually used improperly

[Michael Lee]

Well, educating us about this is a first step.  It's certainly not the
mainstream use:

Google searches for "resolve URI" and "resolve URL" return 4,700 and
3,500,000 pages.
"dereference URI" and "dereference URL" return 800 and 1,300 pages.

--Michael

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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it too pedantic to wish that people would not use "resolve" when
> they mean "dereference"? The terms are distinguished in RFC 3986[1]:
>   "URI "resolution" is the process of
>   determining an access mechanism and the appropriate parameters
>   necessary to dereference a URI; this resolution may require several
>   iterations.  To use that access mechanism to perform an action on the
>   URI's resource is to "dereference" the URI." [1]
>
> I bet the concensus answer to my question is "Yes".  Sigh.
>
> [1]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
>
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