- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:06:00 -0700
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
> OK, but the phrase as stated baffled at least one reader. Rather than
> get into a taxonomy of all the different kinds of ways you might use a
> URI, perhaps just say "... that are addressed and interconnected using
> URIs." Or some such. -T
Because I don't like putting the tail before the dog. URIs are a
product of Web architecture decisions (we could have chosen a
different identifier technology). Besides, then we get into a
fight over what "addressed" means, and maybe over "interconnected"
as well.
I could live with
The World Wide Web is a networked information space consisting
of resources that are interconnected via explicit links defined
by hypertext and metadata found in that space.
I am really, really, really trying hard to encompass both the
browser technology and a theoretical ontology graph consisting
solely of terms and definitions.
....Roy
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