terminology question - generic resource

Regarding http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/awwsw/ir/20110517/

The definition of 'information resource' in AWWW is very different
from the definition of 'generic information entity' in my memo (which
is based on
'generic resource' in Tim's memo
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Generic.html ). Alan R has advised that
it would be very confusing to apply the label 'information resource'
to the latter. It is tempting to do so, in order to "correct" or
subvert AWWW and httpRange-14. However I am tempted to do as Alan
suggests and not reuse the label 'information resource'. I have a
second motivation in that I recently heard someone (you know who you
are) use this term specifically in the AWWW sense, so perhaps the AWWW
sense is more meaningful than I thought it was, making the retention
of the label 'information resource' important.

So I propose to remove "information resource" from a future version of
the memo and replace it with "generic resource". This could also
affect the issue-57 document as well.

I don't particular like "generic resource" as it says nothing about
the information or document nature of the thing, but I would use it
because it is out there, and I hate inventing. "Generic information
entity" is really awkward and I only meant for it to exist internally
to the memo.

Any thoughts on this editorial change? Pro? Con?

Jonathan

Received on Friday, 23 September 2011 17:29:42 UTC