- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:42:21 -0400
- To: "Jean-Jacques Moreau" <moreau@crf.canon.fr>
- Cc: Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>, Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>, Herve Ruellan <ruellan@crf.canon.fr>, xml-dist-app@w3.org, xml-dist-app-request@w3.org, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
Jean-Jacques writes: >> They're not resources, but representations of resources? Interesting question. Yes, MIME representations usually "represent" a resource, which is in any case often an abstract thing. What's confusing me in this case is that there may, in this case, be no other embodiment of the resource anywhere in the world. With a Web GET, you leave the resource behind and pull a representation. At least sometimes with SOAP Attachments, you'll actually be moving the resource with the message, albeit by sending information in the form of a representation. So there's a sense in which it's always a representation, but sometimes it is the resource as well. I'm not making a concrete suggestion one way or the other, just pointing out this perspective in case it's useful to anyone. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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