when is x a webarch-representation of y?

I collected my thoughts on this question and put them here:

http://esw.w3.org/Awwsw200OkResources

So far I think this supports Alan R's approach, which is that
'information resource' is not a natural category and someone just
needs to say what the has-webarch-representation relation is, not in
general but on a case-by-case basis.

Asking "when is x a webarch-representation of y?" is more productive
than asking "what is an information resource", as e.g. it surfaces the
idea that a description of a document is not a webarch-representation
of the document (unless it is pathologically self-describing),
something that httpRange-14 does not explain.

But as far as I can tell so far, ad hoc, type specific assumptions
have to be made in order to answer the question. Still hoping I'm
wrong.

Jonathan

Received on Friday, 18 June 2010 15:28:27 UTC