- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:43:06 +0200
- To: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 08:44 PM, Miles Sabin wrote: > A discussion point from the rest-discuss list which is probably better > dealt with here, > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/2465 > > At issue is the first sentence of the informal definition of resource in > RFC 2396 1.1, > > A resource can be anything that has identity. > > "that has identity" is redundant because *everything* has identity in > the only reasonably straightforward understanding of identity, ie. the > logical truth in all but the most obscure formal systems that, > > (Vx) x = x No, that is not the only reasonably straightforward understanding of identity. That is the specific mathematical axiom of identity and not identity itself. We already had that discussion on www-tag. Everything does not have identity. "Everything" includes both things that have been identified and those that have not yet been identified. Something only becomes a resource after it has been identified, but not necessarily by a URI. The definition is correct as it stands. ....Roy
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