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

[Bob Morris]

Or, one could simply read
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3305#section-2.3 (subtitled
"Confusion").  From now on, I intend to refer to rfc3305 as "The Frege
RFC").

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Bertram Ludaescher
<ludaesch at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> For those wishing to delve more into such subtleties, I can recommend
> this philosophical digression on  the difference between 'sense' and
> 'reference' and the 'meaning' (pun intended of course) of it all:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_reference
>
> In fact, I just heard this podcast that explains it all (sort of):
> http://philosophybites.com/2010/10/michael-dummett-on-frege.htm
>
> Next up: A discussion of what is a "species"!
> (just kidding -- but I did find it amusing that experts in taxonomy
> wouldn't start by recognizing that there are multiple species
> concepts... and then start arguing about how to classify them instead
> of arguing which one is the right one ;-)
>
> Bertram
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:51 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
>>
>> Bob (The Pedant) Morris
>>
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UMASS-Boston
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