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James Fuller wrote: > > a new rock speciman, found in the field, could possibly be named; > > - using a latin name > > - using the name of the person who found it > > - using the name of the place where it was found > > - using the name reflecting characteristics of crystalline habit, chemical > compisition, hardness test, color etc... > > - a mixture of the above > Well if you decided to give your new rock a name using an HTTP URI and if you ensured that your HTTP server returned a document describing that rock when that URI was resolved -- this description would be called a "representation" of the rock.-- heck you could also return a picture of the rock if someone requested: Accept: image/*, and if you published this URI somewhere, you might find that within a few months Google had indexed your URI and that people all over the planet could obtain your description of this rock. Heck you could even put all these other names for the rock in your description. If you did _that_, then people might actually find out about your discovery _quickly_ ... alternatively you could publish your discovery in some old fashioned print only journal, and 2 years after the 3 rock experts in the world had reviewed your description, it would be published in "Rocks" the journal ... in the meantime someone else, had published an HTTP URI and _their_ description has become the definative description of this new rock ... Your choice. Jonathan
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