- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 100 12:39:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: michaelm@netsol.com
- Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
Michael Mealling scripsit: > I.e. there are only Documents. Everything is a Document. And a > Document and a Resource are the same thing.... [snip] > This is actually one of the clearer fundamental axioms of the web: > Everything is a document. It was even one of three things on the > slide at the newcomers orientation at the AC meeting... Well, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, and L. Masinter don't seem to agree with you: # Not all resources are network "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, # corporations, and bound books in a library can also be considered resources. So if everything is a Document, are you and I Documents too? (When you prick us, do we not bleed?) -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions
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