- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:15:13 -0600
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, uri@bunyip.com
Yeah... what he said. Larry Masinter wrote: > > This all got better for me when I just admitted that the > definitions were circular, and decided that it was OK. > > What's a resource? > Something that has a URI. > > What's a URL? > Something that locates a resource. > > What's a URN? > Something that names a resource. > > If you can name it, it's a resource. Different resources > have different names. A single resource might have > multiple names. You can't "get" a resource, you can > only interact with it. One way to interact with > a resource is to obtain an entity that is a representation > of the resource at a given point in time. > > This isn't smalltalk, it's webtalk. "Web" for me is > defined not by HTTP and HTML, but by this fundamental > architectural point, that some entities contain URIs > that locate/name other entities. > > Larry I suppose it's enough to say "same URL implies same resource" and that "different URL implies different resource" isn't useful or necessary. Dan
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