- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:01:02 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Pat Hayes writes: > Yes, I had seen that, thanks. However, this piece of writing is > now very old, and the notion of 'resource' it uses does not > seem to correspond to the way that this word has been used more > recently, particularly by the TAG. > Well, OK, though I have to tell you that if this is the best > y'all can do, you havn't yet managed to make this sense very > clear to others. But thanks for trying :-) Yes, but perhaps it's not clear where we are in the process. Certainly I don't think we're at the point of claiming to make anything clear to anyone, except insofar as Tim did so years ago. There has on some recent TAG telcons been very general discussion around some of the issues that arise when one, for example, wants to make the same resource conveniently accessible from both mobile and larger devices. The same discussions touched briefly on resources translated into different languages (e.g. English & French), and a few related situations in which the same URI might serve representations with different form or content. All the TAG has done is to decide to open an issue so that we can discuss these things. We needed a name and those familiar with Tim's earlier DesignIssues not suggested that "Generic Resource" as he discussed it was close enough to be an evocative short name for the issue. The note you saw was announcing the addition of the issue to our issues list. So, while I think your insights are important and useful, the TAG has just begun the process of deciding what if anything we actually want to do in this space. Opening the issue gives us the formal framework for those discussions. In particular, I don't think we've yet formally decided that the term Generic Resource is appropriate for anything except in the issue name itself, and we certainly have not yet attempted to clarify or rigorously define that term. I'm sure your input will be very helpful as we start more serious discussion, perhaps at the upcoming face to face meeting. Thank you. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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