In Defense of Ambiguity

2008 paper by Pat Hayes and Harry Halpin arguing that reference is ambiguous in any language, so Web architecture cannot make what a URI names fully unambiguous, and that a redirect alone does not settle it.

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Part of the thread Page or thing? critiques

about

• httpRange-14 concept 2002 [src]

critiques

• httpRange-14 resolution writing 2005 [src1][src2]

authored by

• Harry Halpin person [src]
• Pat Hayes person b. 1944 [src]