- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:05:34 +0200
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: nathan@webr3.org, "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
I'm fairly neutral on the meat of the proposal : I don't think it's necessary, but then augmenting existing material with 'describedby' does seem a good idea. But I do believe it needs some editorial tweaks around this: "...a 200 response to a probe URI no longer by itself implies...that the response is a representation of the resource identified by the probe URI" - especially alongside - "Rather than simply telling these people that they are Doing It Wrong..." Instead of telling the people that aren't aware of the distinction made by httpRange-14 they are doing it wrong, in its current wording the proposal amounts to a redefinition of resource and representation, which tells *everyone* that's followed the specs since around RFC2616 (1999) they are doing it wrong (in principle, even if they got lucky in practice). Going down the IR path doesn't seem to work, content vs. description opens another can of worms. So maybe an alternative might be to say that although what you get with a 200 is a representation, it isn't an "authoritative representation" until other information (describedby etc) is taken into consideration. Also talking about a "probe URI" seems misleading, taken literally it implies every request for data should be preceded by a request for metadata. Not sure exactly how this might be reworded, but perhaps something along the lines of "probe activity" by the client on the response. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com http://webbeep.it - text to tones and back again
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