• To: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
• Subject: Re: What is a "resource"? (Was: many-to-many)
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:41:27 -0500
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• In-reply-to: <017d01c2c66f$66f24c60$7c01a8c0@n...>; from jonathan@o... on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:48:48PM -0500
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:48:48PM -0500, Jonathan Borden wrote:
> A resource might be _anything_. There are resources with identity and those
> without. In this context, a resource with 'identity' is a resource which is
> _identified_ by a URI. A resource 'without identity', in this context, is a
> resource which is not _directly_ identified by a URI.

Whoa, hold on there.  A URI doesn't assign identity, it just reflects
it.

Or, put another way, you're making a closed world assumption there; you
don't know whether or not some arbitrary thing has a URI.

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