- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:56:04 +0100
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Cc: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Aaron, I acknowledge that the RFC2396 definition doesn't specifically limit an entity to being a "bag of bits". For the purpose of the current debate, that didn't seem to be the key issue ... what I was trying to emphasize was the distinction between the "conceptual mapping" and the things denoted by that mapping. I.e. that resource != entity. #g -- At 01:56 PM 5/11/01 -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote: >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. > >-- >Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>| The Info Network > <http://www.aaronsw.com> | <http://theinfo.org> >AIM: JediOfPi | ICQ: 33158237| the way you want the web to be > > > >This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept by >MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne Baltimore Technologies Strategic Research Content Security Group <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <http://www.baltimore.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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