text/html2003-06-06T12:00:00Z2010-10-08T13:48:05.109375-04:006,32http://..., is that you?2003-06-06T12:00:00ZCopyright © 2003 Norman Walsh. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Assigning URIs to people, and perhaps to any physical resource, has consequences both social and technical. Socially, I think it's a question of politeness. Am I allowed to make up URIs that identify you? Technically, well, the problems range from straightforward technical challenges, like how do identify when two URIs that are spelled differently point to the same resource and what do you do about it after you have, to the range of http: identifiers. application/docbook+xml2003-06-06T12:00:00Z2010-10-08T13:48:05.109375-04:006,32http://..., is that you?2003-06-06T12:00:00ZCopyright © 2003 Norman Walsh. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Assigning URIs to people, and perhaps to any physical resource, has consequences both social and technical. Socially, I think it's a question of politeness. Am I allowed to make up URIs that identify you? Technically, well, the problems range from straightforward technical challenges, like how do identify when two URIs that are spelled differently point to the same resource and what do you do about it after you have, to the range of http: identifiers.