- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:56:08 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@baltimore.com>, Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: <fmanola@mitre.org>, <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> wrote:
> I thought the URI spec was fairly clear that:
>
> (a) a resource is a "conceptual mapping"
>
> (b) an entity is a "bag of bits"
Actually, the URI spec says:
<q cite="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt"
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.
</q>
To me that seems to indicate that an entity can be more than a bag of bits.
The HTTP spec, however, seems to use this narrower definition of a "network
entity".
<q cite="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">
entity
The information transferred as the payload of a request or
response. An entity consists of metainformation in the form of
entity-header fields and content in the form of an entity-body, as
described in section 7.
</q>
DanC, you may want to link these definitions into the Architecture/Terms
document for later discussions.
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