- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:09:35 -0800
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Sandro Hawke wrote: > Abstraction 102: An http URI is most strongly associated with > something in some domain of discourse (the problem domain) like a > person, place, or thing. When you GET that URI, the bytes returned > are a representation [4] of that thing. > > Abstraction 33: An http URI is most strongly associated with a > repository or collection of information. When you GET that URI, the > bytes returned convey that information. It's going to take a lot of time that I don't have to read through the details of the argument. But I have a major problem with the distinction between these two approaches. Current web architecture makes no such distinction and I think gains thereby - I'm having trouble understanding why we want to try to impose either of these mental models on a system that works perfectly satisfactorily. -Tim
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