- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:41:34 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Roy Fielding <fielding@apache.org>, www-archive@w3.org
You know, while reading Tim's discussion of returned representations, and thinking through whether caching breaks in TimBL's model, I think I've come to an important conclusion; there is no difference between saying that a URI identifies a car, versus saying that it identifies a "conceptual work" about the car. The reason I believe this is because if you have URIs for each of the above, any client would be unable to distinguish between the two because the returned representations would be identical for all time. By definition (in the REST model, at least), those URIs identify the same resource. I think the only harm here, is when it isn't recognized that they're the same, and unnecessary URIs are created. MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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