• To: 'Joshua Allen' <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:26:18 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

It's the difference in identity as established by a 
process handling a representation and existence of 
the thing so identified.

It isn't difficult to understand.  The thing only 
has identity in the sense that the system has a 
unique id.  The system has the property of uniqueness, 
not the thing.  There is no way out of this, but you 
don't need one.  ALL you are talking about is a system 
object, not the person.  It is a red herring until someone 
asserts the two are equivalent.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:08 PM
To: John Cowan; Paul Prescod
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  Re: Why REST? (RE:  WSIO- With Name)


> > That's all the Web does. Ship descriptions (formally known as
> > representations) of resources around. It does not move resources.
> 
> Absolutely.  But a person is not a hyperdocument, even if they may
> sometimes share the same representations.  In an RDF sense, they
> can't be identified.  But in a topic map sense, the document can

I don't understand this -- why is it not possible to identify a person
in an RDF sense?  A URN is just a name; just like "John Cowan" and
"mailto:cowan@m..."; are adequate ways to identify you for
anyone on the mailing list who wants to refer to you.

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