- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:33:58 -0500
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>
>Pat Hayes writes: > >> Until quite recently, and everywhere except for a few of the more >> recherche TAG writings, "resource" in most of this literature in fact >> means "information resource". And keeping "resource" as an >> abbreviation for IR seems quite sensible, and conforms to natural >> English usage and to historical precedents. > >Interesting point. That might work. > >> URI could be glossed as Uniform Rigid Identifier, which in fact is >> quite a good description of its intended use. > >Umm, please take no offense, but that seems a bit clunky and forced. Well, yes, I agree. And in any case it introduces an explicit name clash, when it would be easier to just let the old usage hang around without bothering anyone. I just kind of liked the idea, is all. > Right >now, I think we should either stick with the current broad meaning for >"Resource", or adopt a new initialism. It's not clear to me that anyone >outside the priesthood has even noticed the URL->URI transition, so maybe >yet more confusion only makes it a little worse? > >> With respect to IBM, 150 IBMers is a pretty small group compared to >> the entire rest of the planet. > >Yes, of course. The question is whether my little experience is >representative of many others? Overall, there's a tremendous investment >in teaching people about the Web and how to use it. Agreed, but nothing really changes here except terminology. I really think that anyone other than pure ungeeks will be able to let this slide past without getting too confused. And to me, the contrast resource/thing is a lot easier to handle than non-information resource/information resource. >How much of that is >at a level of specificity that would be affected by the changes of >terminology we're contemplating, I'm not sure. I'm just offering one >datapoint, not drawing any conclusions. Fair enough. Sorry if my response was a bit sharp-stick. Pat > >Noah > >-------------------------------------- >Noah Mendelsohn >IBM Corporation >One Rogers Street >Cambridge, MA 02142 >1-617-693-4036 >-------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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