- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:26:59 +0100
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
> The range of HTTP is not a question of belief, It is a question of > design. > The Web was designed such that the Universal Document Identifiers > identified documents. Columbus designed a mere cheaper route to India and discovered the New World. Not only could the web differ from the original design as far as httpRange-14 goes, but it could be a good thing. > The web works when person (a) publishes a picture of a dog, > person (b) > bookmarks it, mails the URI to person (c) assuming that they will see > more or less the same picture, not the weight of the dog. > > That is why, while the dog is closely related to the picture, > it is not > what is identified, in the web architecture, by the URI. This example already breaks if person (b) says something about the wording in a textual representation and person (c) sees a different language version. Regards, Jon Hanna <http://www.selkieweb.com/>
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