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Jon: why is it necessary to have multiple paths (commons/record, commons/html, and commons/xml)? There seems to be concern that content negotiation is the equivalent of polysemy (one name, many meanings), but this partitions every identifier into yet another segmentadds another component to every identifier, and we anticipate that only a relative few will offer more than one form of response
From URI-based Naming Systems for Science
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