Re: Context Independent URI

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 11:32  AM, Tim Bray wrote:

>>> *If* "nutrition facts and buying information" and "cooking 
>>> instruction" are reasonable representations of the same 
>>> concept/resource... then I guess that would be fine... but I'm 
>>> trying to think what the 'super-concept' might be
>>> that admits representation as "nutrition facts etc." or "cooking 
>>> instructions".
>> The concept is a box of cereal
> I'm saying that these do not feel like reasonable representations of 
> the same resource.  I think "nutrition facts" and "cooking 
> instructions" are totally different resources which deserve separate 
> URIs.  Consider a future web in which it is routine to have 
> machine-processable versions of resources, how is the machine to 
> decide which representation it wants?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. They aren't both 
http:representations of the resource, but they're related information 
(the type of relation is what's decided upon by the context). Perhaps 
the point I'm making is that getting a representation isn't the only 
type of resolution possible with URIs.

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