- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:43:20 -0400
- To: Xiaoshu Wang <xiao@renci.org>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, www-tag@w3.org, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Xiaoshu Wang <xiao@renci.org> wrote: > > That is my point of argument. What is this "close-to-identical" (the fidelity as in this Sotomayor's defense) is non-sense. The "fidelity" is always be interpreted by some one or some group. There is no escape of this "personal" context. Take your "high resolution"as an example, how do you know if I am not wanting the high resolution in terms of the molecular structure of that book, instead of its content or image? You must define your 'resolution' before making it high. You cannot say compare two things without setting the criteria of comparison. In other word, you cannot say which thing is a better awww:representation better than the other. We are in a bit of trouble, then, unless we remove whatever corresponds to rfc2616 section 3.9: 'Quality Values' from the new spec. That section presumes that it is indeed possible to make assessments of similarity/quality (or relative degradation) of a representation as compared to a resource. BTW, this wouldn't be semantics creeping into the nice neat specification, would it? Here is what I expect the form of the answer will be, given the previous parts of this conversation. The words "quality" and "degradation" are not what you and I mean by "quality" (closest wordnet http://www.golovchenko.org/cgi-bin/wnsearch?q=quality#2n) and "degradation" (closes wordnet sense, nominalization of http://www.golovchenko.org/cgi-bin/wnsearch?q=degrade#3v). They are awww:quality and awww:degradation, terms which allow for some scale along which to order representations, the exact nature of such ordering this spec need not be concerned with. -Alan (ietf-http-wg cc removed per request of Mark)
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