Re: Resources and URIs

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 16:35, pat hayes wrote:
[...]
> [ PS. Here is my suggestion for an alternative introductory text. It 
> probably needs wordsmithing.
> 
> "This document specifies the syntax of URIs, which are a form of 
> global identifier used in Web protocols and languages.  Particular 
> uses of URIs, and their intended meanings in various contexts, are 
> described in other specifications. In general, the entities referred 
> to or identified by URIs when used in Web contexts are called 
> "resources"., but this document does not specify the nature of 
> resources or to restrict resources to any particular category of 
> entities."
> 
> and leave it at that.  Nothing else at all about resources, no 
> examples, no discussion.

Yes, that works for me.

> This follows a dictum: when something is highly controversial, don't 
> try to get it right, just don't say it. And it tacitly admits what is 
> the actual case, which is that its up to the world in general to 
> decide what URIs are *actually* going to mean.. So the least said, 
> the better.]

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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/