- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 00:41:13 -0500
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 10:36 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> RFC 2616 says that HTTP URIs denote "network
> data objects or services" (not people).
Umm, no, I don't think it does. It says that:
The "http" scheme is used to locate network resources via the HTTP
protocol.
and that a network resource is:
A network data object or service that can be identified by
a URI[...]
But I don't think it ever says that these HTTP URIs denote these
network data objects, merely that they are used to locate them
(which sounds pretty reasonable to me).
I agree, it's somewhat annoying that the spec overloads the term
"resource" to mean network objects, as compared to what some
have called the capital-R Resources from the URI spec, but I do
believe that HTTP doesn't go as far as saying that all HTTP URIs
denote such lowercase-r resources.
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[ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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