RE: [httpRange-14] What do HTTP URIs Identify?

I don't expect them to endorse a point of view regarding 
that.  I expect them to acknowledge that without a point 
of view, the attempt to architecture meaning is meaningless.

BTW: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Charles Sanders Peirce 
(1839-1914) and later Charles William Morris (1901-1979), are
normally described as the originators of semiotics. 
See http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem01.html

Eco is a modernist.  It is relevant to ask the author 
(the Cat) but it only gets one as far as one agrees 
with the Cat.  Thing One and Thing Two have different 
opinions but they still belong in the Cat's bag.  Start 
with the authority.  Given the authority for interpreting 
the URI itself it the specification for URIs, I still think 
all we can say is that it names the assertion of a relationship, 
but beyond that, is a meaningless string.  That is why I 
claim that when given an HTTP prefaced URI, it is always 
dereferenceable even if the result is an error: because 
it is syntactically processable.  If the cat you ask 
is the address box in IE, it will do its best.  So 
the interpretant is the Cat.

len

From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@microsoft.com]

> If as Fielding says, URIs are the words of the web, then
> we should understand that as the linguists say, words
> have no meaning.

URIs *are* the words of the web.  

However, I would recommend TAG avoid endorsing any particular point of
view regarding semiotics as well.  The relevance is debatable, and the
particular point of view you express is still controversial.  

In fact, this idea is not really even supported by the originator of 
Semiotics theory himself, Umberto Eco.

Received on Thursday, 8 August 2002 17:38:18 UTC