- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:50:39 -0600
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- CC: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, RDF-Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On 2001-23-12 10:09 PM, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org> wrote: > True. A resource for a non-HTTP space can be whatever that URI space says > it is. It is just HTTP which really creates a world of documents. What makes you think that? I've read the HTTP spec carefully a couple of times, and I've had others read it, and we've all come to the conclusion that HTTP is very careful in saying that the things represented by its URIs can be any sort of Resource -- an abstract concept, not just documents. Roy Fielding's dissertation says this too, and goes into more detail about why it is necessary. > mailto: for example, defines a space of mailboxes which are not documents. > I should have limited what I said to the http: space. This I can agree with, since the mailto spec is nowhere near as cautious as HTTP about ensuring the Resources it represents can be of any type. -- [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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