Re: httpRange-14 Change Proposal [editorial tweaks]

On 3/29/12 10:18 AM, David Booth wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 15:05 +0200, Danny Ayers wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> Also talking about a "probe URI" seems misleading, taken literally it
>> implies every request for data should be preceded by a request for
>> metadata.
> Agreed, and a hash URI stem#fragID is not "probed" at all, since only
> the stem URI is used in making a request.  That's why the term "target
> URI" is used instead in the "URI Definition Discovery Protocol"
> proposal:
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/UriDefinitionDiscoveryProtocol#2.2_Target_URI.2C_hash_target_URI.2C_hashless_target_URI
>
>

Stem, Probe etc..

What happened to URIs simply being URIs as per URI abstraction? These 
labels aren't solving anything. These new labels are akin to relabeling 
a predicate and hoping if fixes the effective semantics of a relation :-)

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Received on Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:40:49 UTC