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Re: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)

• To: cowan@m... (John Cowan)
• Subject: Re: Re: Why REST? (RE: WSIO- With Name)
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:47:43 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: cowan@m... (John Cowan), paul@p... (Paul Prescod), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E16akeI-0004Ww-00@m...> from "John Cowan" at Feb 12, 2002 04:39:38 PM

> Mark Baker scripsit:
> 
> > The W3C has identity, as does its web page.  So both are resources, and
> > can therefore be identified by URIs.
> 
> Fair enough.  But what is the URI that refers to the W3C, and how
> do we know?

We ask them!  Or alternately, they use some language (RDF or whatever)
returned over a GET to assert what http://www.w3.org identifies.

> I don't undersstand this.  Do HTTP semantics apply to URIs that do
> not respond to the HTTP protocol?

Yes.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
http://www.markbaker.ca   http://www.planetfred.com

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