- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:43:00 -0500
- To: wangxiao@musc.edu
- Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji <chimezie@gmail.com>, Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Xiaoshu Wang wrote: >> I am not sure if I have misunderstand. Do you want to say that >> "information *is* bit-stream"? I wrote: > [...a lot about information, Shannon, info resources, etc...] Xiaoshu Wang wrote: > Noah, I am lost. I don't think we disagree anything there. > But I am not sure what is your point. My point was so answer what you asked, and to clarify that I don't consider it to be the case that the "information *is* the bit-stream". > If I have a URI say, http://example.com/trafficelight to denote > the traffic light in front of my office. You said that you > want me to 303 to your http://example.com/lightStatus, how? You > need four URI for that. Second, what if I want to describe the > hight, or material, or other information of that traffic light. > What am I going to do? How do I know what a user want? I don't think I'm suggesting anything other than the TAG's resolution of httpRange14. As I mentioned in my earlier note, I think we've spent enough of the list's time on this, so I'd propose that we need not pursue this in more detail. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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