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¥Assigning a
name to an accessible entity inside the entity itself makes the name ÔpermanentÕ and global
in scope. Example: named graphs. For XHTML this could be
done by a property in the header. It is under the control of the owner of the
resource.
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¥Assigning a
name by using a URI to access the thing being ÔchristenedÕ is under
the control of the remote user of the URI, and the name assignment
can be local in scope. (Note, this is consistent with the idea that
URIs have global scope as accessing names.)
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¥But the key
point is that we need some actual mechanism for assigning referents to names, even
for objects on the Web. Right now we donÕt have any, because access isnÕt the same
thing as reference.