data: URI and resource

At 08:00 PM 2/14/01 -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>Data URIs don't refer to resources -- they simply are the resources that one
>would normally expect a URI to refer to. Therefore, I don't think data: URIs
>need to be explicitly excluded since they do happen to be resources, just
>different than what we'd normally expect.

I think it's flawed to say a data:  URI *is* the resource.  RFC2396 
describes a resource as a conceptual mapping from a URI to one or more 
entities.  A data: URI describes and embodies that mapping, and as such it 
is a self contained description of the resource, but that is not the same 
as _being_ the resource.

#g

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Graham Klyne
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