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.  
Sorry, perhaps I missed this.  If you say the URI identifies your 
impression of that city.  What you gets back from HTTP dereference is 
the *impression* of your impression of the city.  You can never gets 
back what a URI denotes by a communication protocol, like HTTP.  You 
always get back a message about it, but not it.

Xiaoshu