  Solutions to the Identification Problem, was Re: URIs / URLs
From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001
07:42:41 -0400 Message-Id:
<200104121302.f3CD2L702875@daniel.hawke.org>  > only need to
identify descriptions and other resources that are retrievable >
over the Internet? > Hell, I don't know. You tell me.  Yes, we
need to identify non-retreivable items.  I see no real question
there.  To change your terms a little, we need to identify
things (lots and lots of things) which are not web pages.  There
are several decent and workable ways to do it.  We can probably
use all of them.   Here's a partial list:  1.  Let web addresses
(web page identifiers) be semantically "overloaded" to identify
both the page and some object or objects which are strongly
related to the page.  People can handle this ambiguity just fine
("I work at w3.org" vs "...the last line on w3.org") and I
believe computers can too, if we're careful.  The exact kind of
"careful" you need is based, I think, on type inference.