>From now on I think we should adopt the correct usage as Bob suggests.<div><br></div><div>Use "dereferenced" when that is what we mean.</div><div><br></div><div>As a list, we are already pedantic about taxonomic terms and Codes.<br>
<div><br></div><div>- Pete<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Bob Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morris.bob@gmail.com">morris.bob@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is it too pedantic to wish that people would not use "resolve" when<br>
they mean "dereference"? The terms are distinguished in RFC 3986[1]:<br>
"URI "resolution" is the process of<br>
determining an access mechanism and the appropriate parameters<br>
necessary to dereference a URI; this resolution may require several<br>
iterations. To use that access mechanism to perform an action on the<br>
URI's resource is to "dereference" the URI." [1]<br>
<br>
I bet the concensus answer to my question is "Yes". Sigh.<br>
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[1]<a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt" target="_blank">http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt</a><br>
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