Re: [metadataInURI-31] RE: Second Draft of summary of TAG issue abstr actComponentRefs-37

Stuart Williams writes:

>> I hope that for now at least we can 
>> view metaDataInURI-31 as a reasonable 
>> 'peg' to hang opacity discussions on, 
>> rather than opening a fresh issue.

Yes indeed.  I noticed the thread on metaDataInURI-31 a few minutes after 
sending the attached note on opacity, and came to exactly the same 
conclusion.  I held off on sending a note in the interest of not 
unnecessarily clogging the list, presuming you all would make the 
connection if that's the way you wanted to handle it.

One thing I would add: regardless of whether you track it as a separate 
issue or combined with "metaDataInURI-31", I think there are important 
aspects of the URI opacity issue that go beyond metadata.  I would be 
disappointed if the opacity issue were dealt with only as a detail 
relating to metadata.   I think it's much more fundamental than that. 
Thank you!

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"Williams, Stuart" <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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        To:     "'noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com'" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
        cc:     "'David Orchard'" <dorchard@bea.com>, www-tag@w3.org, Jonathan Borden 
<jonathan@openhealth.org>
        Subject:        [metadataInURI-31] RE: Second Draft of summary of TAG issue abstr 
actComponentRefs-37



Noah,

I don't think that we will be able to resolve metaDataInURI-31 [1] without
some consideration of the opacity priniciple. I hope that for now at least
we can view metaDataInURI-31 as a reasonable 'peg' to hang opacity
discussions on, rather than opening a fresh issue.

Anyway, thank you for your concern and interest, and I shall endeavour to
make some progress on *drafting* a finding for the issue as a seed for
further discussion.

Best regards

Stuart
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[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist#metaDataInURI-31

> -----Original Message-----
> From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: 28 April 2003 20:49
> To: Jonathan Borden
> Cc: 'David Orchard'; Williams, Stuart; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Second Draft of summary of TAG issue
> abstractComponentRefs-37
> 
> 
> Jonathan Borden writes:
> 
> > URIs should be considered opaque by processes that
> > assign URIs to resources. URIs should only be parsed by
> > processes that retrieve representations of resources
> > identified by a particular URI a.k.a. the process of
> > "URI resolution"
> 
> This seems to me to be an over simplification.  How, for example, do we 
> explain the query component ("?") of a URI and its incremental 
> construction by the GET mode of HTML forms?  [1].  RFC 2396 is very 
clear 
> that the query string is part of the URI, and surely that string is not 
> best thought of as opaque at either the client or the server according 
to 
> this common usage.   To just say "URIs should be opaque to processes 
> assigning URIs to resources" seems to ignore not only query strings, but 

> also the provision of a hierarchical idiom in 2396 and its common (and 
> presumably intended) application to hierarchical resources such as 
> filesystems.
> 
> I think the opacity principle is very important, but I think the TAG has 
a

> real opportunity to set it forth clearly and in a form that will answer 
> practical questions about its application to real-world scenarios.  I've 

> requested this of the TAG before [2], and at the risk wearing out my 
> welcome, Jonathan's note prompts me to repeat that suggestion.  Any 
chance

> the TAG would want to open an issue on clarifying the opacity principle? 

> Thank you.
> 
> Noah
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.2.2
> [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Jan/0158.html
> 
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