Re: Valid representations, canonical representations, and what the SW needs from the Web... from Miles Sabin on 2003-02-02 (www-tag@w3.org from February 2003)

From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:25:51 +0000
To: www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <200302021125.51326.miles@milessabin.com>

Roy T. Fielding wrote,
> BTW, my dissertation doesn't exist within the Web any more than the
> Sun exists within the Web.  Nevertheless, I could mint an http URI
> to identify my dissertation if I wanted to and the system wouldn't
> know the difference.

I appreciate that this was meant as a closing aside, but would you agree 
that this generalizes to "Resources don't exist within the Web".

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Sunday, 2 February 2003 06:26:28 UTC