- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:02:42 +0100
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Larry Masinter writes:
> HTTPbis is in last call. Renaming 'resource' would be a major
> editing task, rewriting text that has been reviewed countless times
> in service of a change that makes no normative difference and is
> based on nothing more than personal preference.
Nowhere in my post did I suggest changing HTTPbis. I absolutely agree
with you.
As my recent reply to Noah suggests, I'm suggesting we explore not going
'there' at all, where by 'there' I mean using 'resource' _or any other
word_ as if there were some class which constituted the range of the
"what does a URI mean/identify/pick out/refer to" function.
As Jonathan Rees said more succinctly [1]
"If there is terminology that *cannot* be explained and whose use
inexorably leads to confusion, then the TAG can help lead the
community away from confusion simply by being careful to avoid use
of that terminology."
ht
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jun/0027.html
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