Re: httpRange-14 Change Proposal [editorial tweaks]

On 3/29/12 9:05 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:
> 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.
What about inferring, with clarity, that a resource and its 
representation are *potentially* ambiguous without additional clarity 
provide by relations of the kind delivered by :describedby.

We are dealing resource representation resolution and fidelity. If you 
come at the resource from a certain world view (e.g., information space) 
you have a resource with fine-grained representation.  For instance, and 
HTML resource is structured enough for browsers to render Web Pages.

Come at it from a different world view (e.g., data space) and you have a 
blob since the content doesn't conform to the required structural 
fidelity of an entity-attribute-value graph, and even worse, actual 
pathways to said graph become skewed (re. follow-your-nose navigation 
via name->address indirection ) if hyperlink (e.g., HTTP URI) based name 
and address choices introduce ambiguity.

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Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 13:45:13 UTC