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Re: Review of new HTTPbis text for 303 See Other

From: Manfred Baedke <manfred.baedke@greenbytes.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:01:04 +0200
Message-ID: <4A5DFD40.10300@greenbytes.de>
To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
CC: Larry Masinter <lmm@acm.org>, 'Richard Cyganiak' <richard@cyganiak.de>, "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@gbiv.com>, 'Jonathan Rees' <jar@creativecommons.org>, 'Julian Reschke' <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, 'HTTP Working Group' <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org 
Pat Hayes wrote:
> I strongly disagree. It may be good practice to be deliberately 
> agnostic about technical details, but it is never good practice to be 
> deliberately obscure about the meanings of the words one is using.
Yes, it is. Take any mathematical theory as an example showing how it 
works perfectly to be deliberately obscure about the meaning of atomic 
terms of a technical language.

Regards,
Manfred

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