- From: Piotr Kaminski <piotr@ideanest.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:27:39 -0800
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> Not a chance in hell. It is simply impossible to transfer a resource --
it
> would be like trying to transfer the notion of love or brilliance or
whatever.
> You can only identify the notion or transfer representations of that
notion.
That's interesting -- do you claim that there are no resources that can be
transmitted directly over a network? What about a resource like "the
sequence of bits 01101011"? If you put those bits in a packet, are you
transmitting the resource or a representation? If I recreate these bits
on my client, do I now have your resource, or just another resource that
happens to have an equal value? In other words, what is the identity of a
sequence of bits?
These questions may seem pedantic, and I'll grant that we very rarely care
to talk about such primitive resources directly, but I think they get at
the heart of the distinction between a resource and its representation.
-- P.
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Piotr Kaminski <piotr@ideanest.com> http://www.ideanest.com/
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance."
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