- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:02:10 -0400
- To: wangxiao@musc.edu
- Cc: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, W3C-TAG Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, www-tag-request@w3.org
Xiaoshu Wang writes: > I think you still do. You own the URI but you don't own Paris. > What people gets back is your personal "impression" of Paris. Yes, if I say that the URI identifies my personal impression of that city, no if I say that it identifies the city itself. Of course, with any resource, there is the question of the care I take in implementing its responses on the Web. Representations can come back with erroneous information for all sorts of reasons, including sloppy coding, faulty hardware, etc. One of those reasons is that I just wasn't careful in researching the population number that I offered. That doesn't make the URI identify my "impression" of Paris; if I say it identifies the city itself, then it does. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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