- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:34:46 -0400
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Taken to www-talk On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:26:08AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > Can you identify anything that doesn't have at least one possible > > representation of its current state? > > an email address has no state. I misspoke. It isn't necessary that it have any state in order to form a representation. Identity is sufficient. When you click on a mailto: URI, the action that is taken is equivalent to GET. It could even be implemented as such, using an intermediary that returns a form for composing an email. That form, or the "form" that Eudora/Outlook/whatever pops up when you click on the URI, is a representation of the resource identified by the mailto: URI. > a host has state, but GET is not a useful operation for a host either. Why not? I could imagine a representation that included information such as who the adminstrator was, information about the machine (OS, CPU, etc..). > an IP address has no state, but it's useful as a resource name. What it identifies, an IP stack, could have a representation. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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