• To: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>,"Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:07:38 -0800
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: 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.

smime.p7s

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