• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: What is "the Web"
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:53:32 -0400
• Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020426114329.04926008@n...>; from jonathan.robie@d... on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:36:08PM -0400
• References: <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B366@HQ5> <2C61CCE8A870D211A523080009B94E430752B366@HQ5> <20020426110811.S6973@w...> <5.1.0.14.0.20020426114329.04926008@n...>

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:36:08PM -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> And each of these would be a representation, not the black hole itself.

GET can't return the thing, only a representation of the thing
identified by the URI.  It's an abstraction, as Len rightly points
out - a very useful abstraction that allows URIs to identify
anything with identity.

> There are at least two consistent ways to say that it does have identity. 

Sorry, I'm not following you down that rathole.

MB
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Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
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