URI-s play a fundamental role
You can
uniquely
identify all resources on the web
Uniqueness is vital to make consistent statements
URI-s include:
protocol and location dependent identifiers
URL-s (eg, http://..., mailto:...)
location independent identifications
URN-s, PURL
Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Hong Kong, September 3rd, 2002
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