Re: [xri] Working Draft 12

[Will Norris <will@willnorris.com>]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Will Norris wrote:

>> 4. Would it be more consistent to change the last  sentence in 3.1 from:
>> 
>>   In no case should the meaning of a given URI used as such an identifier
>>   significantly change, or be used to mean two different things.
>> 
>> to
>> 
>>  The meaning of a URI used as an identifier SHOULD NOT significantly
>> change,
>>   or be used to mean two different things.
> 
> yeah, I thought about this, making it a normative statement.  I'll have to find the right way to word it though... the implicit subject of the second half of your sentence above is "the meaning of the URI", whereas it's intended to be talking about the identifier itself.


Come to think of it, the existing text makes this same mistake so it's good you pointed it out :)