- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:56:01 +0100
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Noah Mendelsohn writes: > Henry Thompson wrote: > >> One example: At the f2f, Tim Berners-Lee mentioned that he would >> prefer to drop all use of the word 'resource'. > > Maybe, but I note that even the proposed "bis" version of HTTP > continues to emphasize use of the term resource. True, but note that your reference [1] is out-of-date: see [2] for pointers to the latest draft. > It seems to me that the TAG's role should be to unify, and then help > explain the proper use of terminology relating to Web architecture. I agree that we have to do our best to be consistent with, and even explain, the terminology of the normative specs, as HTTPbis will be. But we don't have to _use_ that terminology extensively in our own prose, if we don't think it suits _our_ explanatory aims. > [1] > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-03.html#the.resource.identified.by.a.request ht [2] http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/ -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]
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