- From: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:14:03 +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. Sorry, perhaps I missed this. If you say the URI identifies your impression of that city. What you gets back from HTTP dereference is the *impression* of your impression of the city. You can never gets back what a URI denotes by a communication protocol, like HTTP. You always get back a message about it, but not it. Xiaoshu
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