- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:41:24 -0400
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- CC: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>, www-tag@w3.org
On 5/23/2012 12:43 PM, David Booth wrote: > HTTP just shovels the bits around; the semantic web just shovels the RDF > around. Certainly we users may care about the meaning of those bits or > that RDF, but the HTTP protocol and the semantic web architecture do not > and should not. I have some sympathy with the general thrust of your note, but here you go a bit too far I think. HTTP does not just shovel bits; it does so as one of a set of connected specifications that, together, allow one to say quite a bit about the correct interpretation of those bits. What I'm referring to is the story told in the TAG's Self-describing Web Finding [1]. I agree that http semantics don't get into deeper questions of universal truth, but they are significantly more than shoveling bits I think. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments
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