RE: My action item on Moby Dec, issue 14, etc from David Orchard on 2002-09-19 (www-tag@w3.org from September 2002)

From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:52:44 -0700
To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@textuality.com>, "'Norman Walsh'" <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <011a01c25ffc$fa4d6a50$0100007f@beasys.com>

I find this argument amazingly compelling.  I've been waiting for somebody
to synthesize this into something that my more mortal brain can understand.
Thanks.

Cheers,
Dave

> Spin it another way: the URI, and the representations you can (maybe)
> get with it, are all there is.  There is no point in arguing
> about the
> fundamental nature of what the URI identifies and what the
> representations represent, because (a) you can never know, and (b) it
> doesn't matter.
>

Received on Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:56:23 UTC