- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:18:18 -0500
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:02 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: > >Dan Connolly writes: [...] > >> $ HEAD http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema > >> 200 OK > >> > >> So the draft proposes that http://www.w3.org/XML/XMLSchema > >> identifies both an information resource and a language. > > > >Well, the draft only proposes that it identify the language. Putting > >a page there so the server returns 200 was a step I'm pretty sure the > >editor made independently, w/o considering the ontological > >implications of doing so or what our httpRange-14 finding has to say > >about them. > > The fact that it seemed so natural and obvious to do this in the > innocent pre-HTTP-14 days should give us all pause, however. Why > SHOULD putting a Web page in the obvious Web place be considered to > be making ANY kind of ontological statement? Perhaps it shouldn't. On the other hand, isn't putting up a web page the most mundane instance of the sort of baptism ritual that you have been asking about? If you build a store and put "Bob's Bean Emporium" above the door, you have clearly made all sorts of claims, such as: * Bob's Bean Emporium is a store * it's open for business * the general public is welcome to come in and shop for beans etc. When you put up a web page at /path on the example server, surely you make the claim that http://example/path is a document, available for all to read*, no? * subject to access control, etc. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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