Re: resources and URIs

> OK, then in the sense I was understanding the word "on" here, its the 
> *representation* which is on the network, not the thing it is a 
> picture of.  But I realize now that others are using 'on the Web' to 
> mean what I would phrase as 'referred to somewhere on the Web'. The 
> problem for me that is not that this is meaningless, exactly, but 
> that it is useless. Being 'on the Web' in this sense isn't 
> well-defined, cannot be checked for accuracy, provides no 
> architectural or semantic content.  So OK, I don't give a damn 
> whether something is or is not 'on' the Web in this sense, and I see 
> no reason why I or anyone else should give a damn what the TAG group 
> thinks about it either, as it makes no difference to anything.

Pat, above you seem to use 'network' and 'Web' interchangeably;
is that intentional?

If you told me there was a random bag of representations available
on the Web, I would't give a damn.  But if you told me there would
be a set of representations over time which express the state of something
of interest, then I would.  How is the architecture supposed to indicate
that certain groups of representations (maybe over time) "hang" together
meaningfully?  Or is that not the job of architecture?

Thanks,
Walden

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