Re: HTTP URIs and authority

noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Xiaoshu Wang writes:
>
>   
>> I think you still do.  You own the URI but you don't own Paris. 
>> What people gets back is your personal "impression" of Paris.
>>     
>
> Yes, if I say that the URI identifies my personal impression of that city, 
> no if I say that it identifies the city itself.  Of course, with any 
> resource, there is the question of the care I take in implementing its 
> responses on the Web.  Representations can come back with erroneous 
> information for all sorts of reasons, including sloppy coding, faulty 
> hardware, etc.  One of those reasons is that I just wasn't careful in 
> researching the population number that I offered. That doesn't make the 
> URI identify my "impression" of Paris; if I say it identifies the city 
>   
- The URI identifies the city.

- The *representation* that people gets back by dereferencing the URI 
with HTTP protocol is your *impression*. 

- Your *impression* about the city is NOT the *city*. 

Regards,

Xiaoshu