- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:50:17 +0200
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
Pat, On 25 Sep 2007, at 01:05, Pat Hayes wrote: > We already have a name for the only category we need: they are HTTP > endpoints. > > OK, I won't push the ambiguity point for the people/web-pages case > any more. So as for people, we can reasonably assert that people > aren't this kind of thing: a person can't be an http endpoint, so > if you get a 200 code back then the URI doesn't denote a person. Yuck. That's not coherent at all. Let's say I send an HTTP GET to some URI, and the response is 404. Clearly, I have connected to something, that thing has received my HTTP request, and generated an HTTP response. I'd say that's good evidence for the existence of an HTTP endpoint associated with that URI, even though the URI might not actually identify any resource. Same for 303. If I mint a URI and intend it to identify a person, then of course I can set up an HTTP endpoint for that URI and make it dispense 303 redirects. The one thing I can't make it do, according to httpRange-14, is dispense representations at that URI. A more fruitful endeavour might be to shed some light on the relationship between a resource and its representation(s). Why can certain resources have representations, and others not? Who gets to associate representations with a resource? Best, Richard > > Pat > > >> >> >> >> >> [...] >>> No, that "identify" is one case of "name". Which is true enough for >>> government work, I will agree. But not all names are >>> identifiers, is >>> my point. >> >> On that and other matters, I'll perhaps reply separately. >> I'm still thinking it over. >> >> >> -- >> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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