RE: what is this? was: Re: now://example.org/car

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jonathan@openhealth.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:25 PM
> To: Champion, Mike; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: what is this? was: Re: now://example.org/car
> 
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1772811392
> 
> is this a web page or a car or an auction for a car?

Clicking on that URL, I get a representation of what appears to be an
auction for a car.  It's definitely not a car, and it's a web page by virtue
of having a URI that can be used to retrieve a representation of something,
I guess.  

I presume it's a trick question :-)  I guess the only thing we might
disagree on is whether it could represent a Car Itself rather than some
information about a car itself. Even if it was in the Porsche.de domain, I
could never accept that the URI returns a direct representation of the Car
Itself, but I easily accept that the above URI is an Auction Itself. But if
the URI were now://www.porche.de/Archive/1772811392  I wouldn't worry about
whether it was a Car or an Auction, because would uniquely identify
something that is not on the web AND IMPLY NOTHING MORE.

Received on Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:21:41 UTC