Re: guide to ISSUE-57 (httpRange-14) document suite

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On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Jonathan A Rees
<jonathan.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
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> -- apologies for brevity / using handheld gizmo --
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> On Mar 31, 2012, at 12:40, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
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>>> Reviews are welcome
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>> A quick review:
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>> The document assumes some things that I don't believe:
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>> - there's a determinable distinction between information resources and non-information resources, and thus between metadata and data.
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> Good, I dont believe this either.
> The doc does not assume it
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>> - that URIs have (or can have) "definitions" ( except in a few obscure cases, e.g., with a URN, the naming authority could supply a definition).
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> In fact, in some communities and contexts, some http uris do have definition. This is not an assumption, it's empirically true.
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> Certainly most don't though, and this is not assumed in the document.
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>> - that the 'meaning' of a URI depends (can depend, should depend) on the behavior of the HTTP protocol
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> In both 1998 rdf and in linked data what's retrieved does tell some people something about what they will think is identified. In the HTTP spec 200 means you got a representation of the resource, and that's telling you something, even if it's not clear what.
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> I dont get what 's not clear. Let's cover this on Monday, it's not rocket science.
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> Jonathan
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