- 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 ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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