- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:08:15 -0700
- To: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
> Given the lack of constantness, how does a user of a thing know when it > changes from one form to another? Presumably we want the software to do > different behaviour depending upon whether it's concrete or abstract. And > the only tool we have is the name. And changing the name means that > software and humans will have a chance at knowing to do things > differently. On the contrary, we do not want the software to do anything different. I don't understand where you picked up that idea. The purpose of the representation, if any is available, is to provide information about the resource (to describe its current state). There is no implication whatsoever that the client is going to access that resource, just as there is no implication today that the xmlns identifier will be accessed during the processing of XML. Identification and access are separate. ....Roy
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