Re: Some TAG review of "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web"

Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) scripsit:

> I mention this here because there seems to be a tendency in these
> threads to offer a definition whereby "information resources" are just
> those which in fact respond to an http request with a 200 response code

In particular, that puts one in the silly position of saying that
ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/README.TXT is not an information
resource at all, whereas http://www.unicode.org/Public/README.TXT
is an information resource.

> - whereas the TAG definition was intended to be broader - anything whose
> essential nature is information.

Indeed.

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