RE: httpRange-14 Options

Hi David,


> Alistair I've recreated all these points over the past 6 months
> ... I'm worried about the social process of getting everyone 
> to adopt  
> a new solution
> ... each of the 3 philosophies feels consistent to me
> ... 1. Tim's
> ... 2. published subjects
> ... 3. "you can identify anything with http: but if it's not an  
> information resource you should do a redirect'
> 
> I read through the remainder of the discussion, but did not see the  
> addition of a fourth point.  Perhaps there were only 3?

These were the options I thought you were referring to (I only remembered 3 also).

Point 2 should not be included here, because the practice of using PSIs is completely orthogonal to httpRange-14.  It is orthogonal because to identify something via a PSI is to identify something *indirectly* via the URI of a *subject indicator document*.  Therefore when you use PSIs you only ever directly allocate URIs to 'information resources' (sensu TimBL).  This means that option 2 should be subsumed under option 1, because it is entirely consistent.  See also [1].

Also I'd like to see points 1 and 3 clearly and concisely stated, for the record (before we all assume we're talking about the same thing, and it turns out we aren't).

Cheers,

Al.








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> [1]  http://www.w3.org/2005/03/03-swbp-minutes#item09
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> Regards,
> Dave
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Received on Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:30:35 UTC