Re: "resolution mechanism"

Taken to www-talk

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:26:08AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> > Can you identify anything that doesn't have at least one possible
> > representation of its current state?
> 
> an email address has no state.

I misspoke.  It isn't necessary that it have any state in order to form
a representation.  Identity is sufficient.

When you click on a mailto: URI, the action that is taken is
equivalent to GET.  It could even be implemented as such, using an
intermediary that returns a form for composing an email.  That form,
or the "form" that Eudora/Outlook/whatever pops up when you click on
the URI, is a representation of the resource identified by the
mailto: URI.

> a host has state, but GET is not a useful operation for a host either.

Why not?  I could imagine a representation that included information
such as who the adminstrator was, information about the machine (OS,
CPU, etc..).

> an IP address has no state, but it's useful as a resource name.

What it identifies, an IP stack, could have a representation.

MB
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Received on Friday, 12 April 2002 13:28:35 UTC