- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:24:59 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
I notice that this draft makes explicit the idea that a resource is time-varying because what's at the end of the URI. Are resources also space-varying? Consider the impact of proxy servers (especially infrequently updated ones like AOL's), local caches, and even DNS servers that don't always agree with each other. You may not get the same resource I get when resolving the URI http://www.cafeconleche.org/ even if we resolve it at the same moment in time. You may have an older copy in your cache. My DNS may deliver a different mirror site that hasn't been updated yet, etc. Does this need to be discussed? Either to confirm it as proper behavior or to deprecate it as indicative of broken software and systems? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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