RE: Generic-Resources-53: URIs for representations

> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] 
> 
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) wrote:
> > I think that in creating webarch [2] we tried to maintain a fairly 
> > clear distinction between resources and representations (modulo 
> > anything can be a resource!). In that world view, IIRC, it 
> > was "resources" rather than "representations" that have URIs.
> 
> Er... you just noted yourself that anything can be a resource.
> 
> As such, I think it's not too harmful to speak of URIs for 
> representations.

I rather strongly disagree.  For one thing, it is apt to lead to
unnecessary confusion.  For another thing, once one of those
representations has a URI and it responds to http requests, we'd be in
the rather uncomfortable position of having to refer to what it returns
as "the representation of the representation" -- not a direction I think
we want to go.

Please find some other term to use.  I'll just through out a few more
ideas to stimulate thinking:

	snapshot
	view
	custom view
	presentation

> 
> > [1] 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/alternatives-discovery-20060915.html
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch


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