- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:45:26 +0000
- To: www-archive@w3.org
Forwarded to public archive so can be referenced. Brian >Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:52:22 +0000 >To: "David Orchard" <david.orchard@bea.com>, <chairs@w3.org> >From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com> >Subject: Re: TAG issues during technical plenary >Cc: <tag@w3.org> > >At 11:24 20/01/2002 -0800, David Orchard wrote: >>Dear chairs, >> >>The TAG requests your assistance in two matters. Firstly, the TAG solicits >>your input on topics that the TAG should address. > > >RDFCore would like the TAG to clarify and define the foundations of the >architecture of the web. The concept of a resource is fundamental to web >architecture, yet it is very hard to pin down exactly what it means and >how it relates to the concepts of URI, URI reference and XML >namespace. The RDF community has, for some time, found this uncertainty >has led to protracted discussions which rarely resolve. RDFCore is >defining a formal model for the semantics of RDF, but is hampered in this >effort by the lack of a formal model for these core web concepts. > >We suggest the TAG publish a W3C recommendation containing a description >and a formal model: > > o clarifying the nature of resources > - is a resource a 'conceptual mapping' as described in RFC 2396 > - how does it relate to the concepts of content and representation > - in what ways do web accesssible and non-web accessible resources > differ > o clarify how URI's relate to resources (e.g. can the same resource > be named by more than one URI) > o clarify what is named by a URI reference > - how does this relate to the concept of resource > - can a URI which names a non web-accessible resource take a > fragment id? > - how are parts of a resource, e.g. chapter 1 of a document, named, > independently of mime type > o clarify how the names in an XML namespace relate to URI's and URI > references? > - both RDF and XML schema name concepts using URI references, but > use different > Qname constructions to represent a URI reference > - do we have two fundamental ways of naming things in the web, > Qnames and URI's? > o as an example, explain the operation of the http protocol within the > context > of this model. > >Further discussion related to these questions can be found in the thread >beginning: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Jan/0188.html > >and in the RDF issue raised by Jonathon Borden: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2002JanMar/0014.html > >Brian
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