Re: ISSUE-81 (resource vs representation)

Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2009, at 14:18, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
>> It seems like it would be more painstakingly accurate to say "A URL is 
>> a string used to retrieve a resource"
> 
> I think the point of the ISSUE is that the theoretically pure view is 
> that you can never retrieve a resource but only its representation. See 
> also the subject line of 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Jun/0101.html

Henri, when you say "theoretically pure view" it almost sounds as a bad 
thing.

Technical purity is a *good* thing, unless it is in conflict with other 
design goals. I don't think it is in this case.

BR, Julian