- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:12:58 +0100
- To: <uri@w3.org>
Folks said:
> >RFC 2396 says: "A resource can be anything that has identity". Gee thats
> >helpful in designing tools! :-).
>
>Maybe you are looking for something other than a resource. That is the
>only thing a tool needs to know in order to manipulate the Web interface:
>the fact that it knows very little, and therefore must rely on the
>naming authority for everything else.
RFC 2396 also goes on to say:
The resource is the conceptual mapping to an entity or set of
entities, not necessarily the entity which corresponds to that
mapping at any particular instance in time. [...]
Which I find to be helpful. I think an accompanying definition of "entity"
would have been helpful.
I submit that the purpose of these documents is not only to state what the
tools need to know, but also what human users/designers need to know. I
think there have been many discussions that would have been easier with a
clear, common understanding of the properties of resources and their
relationship to URIs.
#g
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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)
Received on Wednesday, 6 September 2000 06:19:34 UTC