- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:40:29 +0200
- To: Jacek Kopecky <jacek.kopecky@deri.org>
- Cc: Stuart Williams <skw@hp.com>, www-tag@w3.org
On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, 5:37:35 PM, Jacek wrote: JK> Hello all, JK> I applaud this proposal, as it results in a clearer and less JK> philosophically encumbered spec. 8-) I agree - and further, it makes testable statements. It can be determined whether a given resource is a Web Resource or not. It exposes an electronic protocol (such as, for example, HTTP) and it can be interacted with. It need not return a representation (it might refuse to, or it might say there are no acceptable representations, etc) but agin, this is all testable technical specification. It was not possible to determine whether a resource was an information resource. By the very fact of someone referring to it, all resources have at least one bit of information (the 'alleged to exist' bit). So, after a little further consideration post telcon (and my comments in IRC show I was tending in this direction) I support the proposed wording. I think the optional extra sentence is worthwhile, too. JK> Back to lurking mode, JK> Jacek Kopecky JK> Ph.D. student researcher JK> Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Innsbruck JK> http://www.deri.org/ JK> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:39, Stuart Williams wrote: >> Patrick, >> >> Yesterday the TAG discussed [3] a proposal [2] to address your comment >> [1] which I repeat below, slightly amended. The TAG asked me to give it >> a wider airing by re-posting on www-tag. >> >> Proposal: >> >> 1) Replace all occurences of the noun phrase "information resource" with >> the noun phrase "web resource". >> >> 2) Replace the defining sentence for the noun phrase "information >> resource" (section 3.1 1st para, 1st sentence) : >> >> "The term Information Resource refers to resources that convey >> information. Any resource that has a representation is an information >> resource." >> >> with >> >> "The term Web Resource is applicable to resources for which web >> acesssible representations are available and/or which may be interacted >> with through an exchange of representations. Any resource that has a >> representation is an information resource." >> >> 3) [Optional] Consider adding a nearby sentence: "Colloquially, Web >> Resources are said to be "on-the-web"." >> >> Best regards >> >> Stuart Williams -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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