Re: AWWSW telecon, Tues Feb 3

On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:

>> From: Jonathan Rees [mailto:jar@creativecommons.org]
>>
>> How would this be useful?
>
> This group has been struggling for over a year to understand and  
> explain what an "information resource" is and what it really means  
> when a 200 response is returned upon dereferencing a URI.

"Information resource" means different things to different people. We  
should capture all definitions and figure out how they relate to one  
another. If there's one missing from our list please add it. We're not  
struggling to understand (well, except in the one situation where I'm  
struggling to understand Tim) - we're struggling to write down  
something that has the possibility of being understood.

We're not in a position to say what 200 means. At best we can capture  
what it means in different documents and to various agents. It's not  
about "really", it's about getting anything at all written down. None  
of us seems to have time to work out the details.

> These questions boil down to fundamental architectural questions of  
> how identity is determined and what it means for a URI to "denote" a  
> resource.

It's not our place to answer architectural questions. It is only our  
job to capture, neutrally, what the existing theories and answers are,  
and relate them to one another. If something is unclear we can set up  
a cafeteria of clear things one *might* mean, and let people decide.

(The rest is answered in another message that I'll send soon)

-Jonathan

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