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Tim Bray wrote: > > Can you provide some examples? > > The many millions of web pages that aren't about anything in particular > (they contain poems, or abstract art, or whatever). The (physical) > robots and coke-machines and so on that can be controlled via HTTP. > I share your concerns, but feel myself coming around to the idea that all HTTP URIs identify "information resources". I would like a crisp definition of "information resource" before I'd buy into this, but might accept as a definition something along the lines of (perhaps) "something that is capable of emiting representations." By this definition we might say that the URI http://example.com/Love does not _identify_ the abstract concept of "Love" rather a specific document about Love. Similarly we say that http://example.com/TimB/Car cannot represent** the abstract concept of a "Car" however, is might very well represent "Tim Bray's Car" which is capable of transmitting information such as its current GPS coordinate, remaining gas, and inflation state of its side airbags. **This URI might however represent "Tim Bray's ideas about the concept of 'Car'" Is this distinction tenable? Jonathan
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