Re: ISSUE-57: The use of HTTP Redirection

Richard Cyganiak wrote:
> 2. This boils down to a question wether to provide a representation  
> of a resource, or instead provide an associated description of the  
> resource (by means of a 303 redirect or hash truncation). What is the  
> difference between a representation and a description?

A representation _is_ the thing (to some not quite fully
defined level of approximation) whereas a description is
only _about_ the thing.

A huge file giving the exact position and state of every
particle in a car (in a universe without quantum uncertainty)
still wouldn't _be_ the car whereas a representation of a
web page with all the styling markup removed would still
be, to some extent, that web page.