- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:23:33 -0600
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>, RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Dec 14, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: > On 14 December 2011 21:31, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote: > >> Any ideas for a better term? > > "Web Service"? "HTTPResource"? HTTPOrHTTPSMaybeGopherFTPTooResource"? > It is a Web Service really, but the word is already rather busy with > other duties. > > I'm wary of suggesting that the "Resource" in "Resource Description > Framework" now means anything more technically-specific than "Thing". > We've spent a long time trying to clarify that. > > The old HTTP-NG work, which tried to wrap a distributed objects layer > around HTTP and other browser-accessible protocols, used 'WebDocument" > - http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-HTTP-NG-interfaces/ and nearby. > > Let's call this notion 'Thingy' for purpose of the next paragraph. > > If I have two physically linux boxes A and B, wired up to be part of > the Web using round-robin DNS so that two separate hard drives / CPUs > etc are serving up a common identical set of content, and > http://example.com/something1 will 50% of the time serve from A, 50% > serve from B. Lots of Web sites in practice serve using more > sophisticated variants on this pattern. > > Are we clear that in our story, there is just one "Thingy'? I think we should be violently agnostic on questions like this. > ... I prefer not to use any phrase > with "Information Resource" inside it, like "Web Accessible > Information Resource", since it suggests we've clarified what an > "information resource" amounts to. +1 Pat ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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