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   [1]W3C

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                                 AWWSW

01 Apr 2008

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Attendees

   Present
          Jonathan_Rees, David_Booth, Stuart_Williams, Alan_Ruttenberg

   Regrets
          Noah

   Chair
          Jonathan Rees (jar)

   Scribe
          dbooth

Contents

     * [3]Topics
         1. [4]Relationship between a thing and an HTTP response
     * [5]Summary of Action Items
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Relationship between a thing and an HTTP response

   <jar>
   [6]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0015.htm
   l

      [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0015.html

   jar: It's beginning to make sense to me.

   <jar> [7]http://esw.w3.org/topic/AwwswThingResponseRelationship

      [7] http://esw.w3.org/topic/AwwswThingResponseRelationship

   <Stuart> Re: By RFC2616, 200 means that "an entity corresponding to
   the requested

   <Stuart> resource is sent in the response"

   <Stuart> I may choose to disagree with the way that is expressed.

   Stuart: My homework conveys the request and the response.

   [8]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0015.htm
   l

      [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0015.html

   Stuart: I'm inclined to think one is asking a question of "the Web"
   and "the Web" responds.
   ... So I misread jar's comment.
   ... I posted a transcript and wrote a little RDF to model the
   operation and response. Also made a rule with an antecedent to pick
   out the date, content, etc., and generates conclusions, including
   that the response conveys the state of the resource.
   ... What the bits encode is what you want to get at. It's comparing
   two resource states as being the same.
   ... And I mentioned a few things that are not concluded, such as
   that the document is invariant, it is the US constitution, etc.

   Sounds like we might want to use line numbers when we submit code.
   :)

   alan: Does that URI denote a class or instance?

   Stuart: An instance.

   Alan: The page
   [9]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0015.htm
   l also says "The troop surge in Iraq is over a year underway". Is
   that part of it?

      [9] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0015.html

   Alan seems to be asking what exactly the URI denotes.

   Alan: The document changes over time, e.g., it has a counter.
   ... But I could make statements about it as containing the
   constitution.

   dbooth: In an HTTP, you need an actual URI, not just
   <[10]http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html>.

     [10] http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html%3E.

   Stuart: If you put angle brackets, I mean the resource associated
   with that URI.
   ... If it had been the lexical string I would have put quotes around
   it.

   alan: Needs to be the URI string, not angle brackets.

   Jar: That same resource could have multiple URIs, and you might get
   different responses from different URIs.
   ... You've said that the resource as some particular state -- a
   time-sensitive conclusion. It may be true for some period of time,
   then may no longer be true. That's different from my approach which
   says there was some time when some particular state was in effect,
   which will always be true.

   dbooth: but hasState doesn't preclude it from also having other
   states (with different times)
   ... The word "state" or "hasState" seems misleading, because it what
   you get from the resource may not be the state of the resource.

   alan: This thing has states over time and you get one of these
   states back. That's not the same as a MS Word doc that doesn't
   change over time.

   <jar> stuart: We don't know much from the http interaction itself -
   just that it's a Document

   stuart: point of second rule, if I picked on a W3C TR I would have
   more than one URI through which i could retrieve a rep of the most
   recent version. ONe has a date embedded and the other doesn't.
   They're different resources, but at some times they communicate the
   same state.

   <jar> dbooth: 'state' is misleading

   <jar> dbooth: it's not the 'state' of the resource, it's just some
   data that was sent back

   alan: there's no constraint on what a valid rep could be.

   dbooth: that's a feature, not a bug!

   stuart: what is it a representation of? could be of the resource or
   of the state of the resource.

   <jar> stuart: a representation is a representation of what? the
   resource or the state?

   alan: i could ask you what time is it, and you could answer
   "potatoes".

   dbooth: yes, so use a different resource, that is more helpful in
   telling the time.

   stuart: Roy Fielding says that what makes something "resource"ful is
   its consistency over time. If it isn't consistent, it isn't useful,
   few will use it, and it will die.

   alan: So that means we don't say what resources are.

   jar: The site owner gets to say how the URI should be used as a
   name. Since the HTTP protocol isn't saying how the name should be
   used, you need to look elsewhere.

   dbooth: I partly disagree.

   jar: the only thing you can conclude is that there's some undefined
   relationship between the resource and the response.

   <jar> 10 minutes left

   dbooth: stuart, why do you provide a rule for comparing states?

   stuart: this is to be able to indicate that two different resources
   may have the same state even if they are different resources.

   <jar> alanr: if it doesn't change it doesn't have state

   <jar> stuart: sure it does - the state may not change, but that's ok

   <jar> shall we continue past 10:00?

   <alanr> k

   k

   <jar> alanr: David, can you unpack a bit your dislike of the word
   'state'?

   <jar> dbooth: The information coming back is completely arbitrary -
   unconstrained, the server gets to decide

   <jar> alanr: Then there is no relationship

   <jar> dbooth: Yes, there is, the data was sent back on behalf of
   that resource

   <Stuart> dbooth... just about... but it also to note that in general
   a resource is not it's current state, that state can change AND that
   juts because 2 resources have the same state (possibly at the same
   or at different times) does NOT allow you to conclude that they are
   the SAME resource.

   <jar> dbooth: Well, it's a very weak relationship, but a
   relationship nonetheless

   <jar> alanr: A relationship between the *name* and something is not
   one between the thing and the something (e.g. me and my putative
   hotel room)

   <jar> dbooth: http doesn't tell you very much about the relationship
   between the response and the resource

   [11]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0016.ht
   ml

     [11] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-awwsw/2008Mar/0016.html

   <jar> dbooth: What you *can* determine is in my response to the
   homework assignment

   <jar> alanr: Stuart, if someone looked in a state, and didn't find
   the constitution, then a mistake would have been made, right?

   <jar> stuart: Someone has decided to deploy the resource, and if
   they decided that is should be the constitution, then yes, a mistake
   would have been made

   <jar> stuart: i haven't published that intent. 3rd parties may
   observe that it appears to be the us constitution, and revisit it,
   but maybe it will disappear

   <jar> alanr: If a statement of the type was published, then it would
   be possible for *others* to say a mistake had been made, yes?

   alan: We could have an extra method that says what kind of thing the
   URI denotes, and it could say that it's supposed to be the
   constitution, and then if the response doesn't contain it, then we
   could say that it is erroneous.

   stuart: You're not going to find out that intent from http. You
   might with a Link header that points to a description.

   <jar> it's 10:11. wind up?

   I agree with Stuart.

   <jar> alanr: Maybe this is too complex a case?

   dbooth: in some sense the IR case is more difficult than the non-IR
   case, because with a non-IR you have what I've been calling a URI
   declaration that explicitly says what the URI denotes. We don't
   (yet) have such rules for IRs (though my homework proposes one).

   <jar> alanr: Looks like you don't learn much of anything from a 200
   response.

   <Stuart> The response to a GET is *NEVER* the reference resource.

   <jar> stuart: Yes you do - you can read the page and it tells you
   things -

   <jar> jar: But you only know about the responses, not the resource

   <Stuart> no... you get a representation of the current state of the
   resource.

   <jar> Sure, but is there anything I can say about the resource
   itself? Not without an independent statement.

   <Stuart> The resource has future state which may or may not be
   different... you do not get all that future potential.

   <jar> dbooth: Encourage people to look more closely at writings
   about URI declarations

Summary of Action Items

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