On ID "sameness"

[Arnold Rots]

Ray Plante wrote:
> > Therefore I believe the ID question devolves to a question of what
> > documentation bundle goes with one of the tokens.
> > 
> > "Sameness" is a matter of compring ID strings. If they are different, we
> > must look to their metatdata for any possible relationships. We should not
> > overload our ID with extra stuff and try to be all things to all people.
> 
> The question then is, under what circumstances should two things (or two 
> references to things) be refered to by identical IDs?  I would infer from 
> your discussion that it mean that the two things have identical 
> documentation bundles associated with it.  Yes?

Nah, not really, I think, because it depends on the specification of
what needs to be included in the bundle: if you have a gif and a jpeg
image that represent the same scene, should their documentation
bundles be expected to include a description of their graphical
formats?

  - Arnold

> 
> cheers,
> Ray
> 
> 
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