- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:51:39 -0400
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: Stuart Williams <skw@hp.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Perhaps it's worth noting that our current editors draft says [1] TRUE per Basel Definition: "The distinguishing characteristic of these [information] resources is that all of their essential characteristics can be conveyed in a message." but it does NOT say the converse: FALSE per Basel Definition: "A non-information resource is distinguished by the fact that none of its state can be conveyed in a message." We shouldn't be surprised that there is some machine-representable state for a real live shaggy dog. We might choose to expose its temperature or its weight, for example. The distinction drawn in Basel is that dogs are interestingly different from information resources because there exist essential aspects of the dog that are not conveyable in a machine-readable way. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/webarch/#id-resources (I don't think I have a stable link in date space for this, unfortunately) -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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