- From: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:10:41 +0100
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- 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
noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > 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 > - The URI identifies the city. - The *representation* that people gets back by dereferencing the URI with HTTP protocol is your *impression*. - Your *impression* about the city is NOT the *city*. Regards, Xiaoshu
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