Re: The meaning of "representation"

• From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
• Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:14:42 -0800
• To: wangxiao@musc.edu
• Cc: W3C TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <17CFF8EF-9034-4000-A3CE-8E0BF9B7FDD8@gbiv.com>

On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Xiaoshu Wang wrote:
> Here is what you, along with other authors, write in the section  
> 1.2.1 of URI spec http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
> "A URI may be represented in a variety of ways; e.g., ink on paper,  
> pixels on a screen, or a sequence of character encoding octets. The  
> interpretation of a URI depends only on the characters used and not  
> on how those characters are represented in a network protocol."

Please note that is referring to how the characters in a URI can be
communicated.  It has nothing to do with the resource or a  
representation
of the resource.

....Roy

Received on Monday, 26 November 2007 01:15:06 UTC