Re: URIs quack like a duck

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

Received on Sunday, 4 June 2000 12:12:46 UTC