- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 09:08:03 -0400
- To: "Mark Birbeck" <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>, <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
Hi Mark, Just to avoid confusion, DanC and I are addressing a little different issue. DanC and Pat and I are discussing: What is an "information resource"? Whereas you are talking about the issue: Is is okay to use the same URI both as the name of a resource and as the name of a Web page that describes that resource? Example: Is it okay for Mark Baker to use http://markbaker.ca/ as a name for himself *and* for his blog Web page? > From: Mark Birbeck > > > But that is the crucial difference! Sure, a *single* weather > > report can > > be conveyed in a message. But > > http://weather.example.com/oaxaca is not > > merely identifying a *single* weather report issued at 2005-03-12 > > 23:11:36.236 UTC or any other particular time. It identifies a > > *function* from time to weather reports. I don't know any > > way to transmit "all of [the] essential characteristics"[10] > > of that particular function in a message or even a finite set > > of messages. > > But a weather report and a web page are two different > resources. Hence they need two different URIs. . . . I believe both DanC and I were talking *only* about the Web page, though we may not have been clear about that. We are referring to the example in section 1 of the WebArch ( http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#intro ) in which the URI http://weather.example.com/oaxaca returns dynamically generated weather report Web page. David Booth
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