- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:38:31 -0400
- To: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, AWWSW TF <public-awwsw@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:02 +0000, Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) wrote: [ . . . ] > Ok... you've reminded of a message from Joshua Allen early in the life > of the TAG which introduces the notion of resources as > (wa-)representation o hypertext *dispensers* > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jul/0302.html Interesting post! I don't agree with all of his points, but his characterization of a web resource as a representation *dispenser* is very nice: [[ An http: identifier in practice simply locates a "representation dispenser for a resource". The identity of the resource for which it dispenses representations is immaterial, and a red herring in this discussion. That is because the http: identifier itself simply identifies the *dispenser*. ]] -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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