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Re: many-to-many

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• Subject: Re: many-to-many
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:19:34 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3E32FD08.4000801@t...>

tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes:
>The resource is identified by the URI, nothing else.  The 
>representations can vary by time, by the nature of the user-agent, the 
>IP address it's coming in from, and any other information available to 
>the provider of the representation.  -Tim

I think the main thrust of this thread has that URIs can effectively
identify multiple "resources", whatever those are, depending on context.
"The resource" as a monolithic being disappears.

That lets us give up on the notion of consistent (URI+time->result)
expectations that Jeff seems to be picking on[1], and get on with our
work.

With any luck, this approach might mean less philosophical "bleeding
from the brain" (as Tim so cheerfully described it on www-tag) and more
focus on how things work in particular - and diverse - systems.


[1] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200301/msg00664.html

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