[sc34wg3] Subject Locators

[Jan Algermissen]

If you intend the semantics of your resource to be 'a fixed document  
instantiation (bits and bytes)' then use the URI of the resource to  
reference it. There is no point in using the URI as a subject locator  
since the resource already represents the bits and bytes.

The whole distinction between subject locator and subject indicator  
simply does not make sense on the Web.

(Admitedly I refused to accept this myself for over two years, but at  
some point decided just to accept it....and *then* I was able to  
understand it.)

Jan



On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>
> * Lars Marius Garshol
> |
> | subject locator: I'm referencing the representation of the resource
>
> * Jan Algermissen
> |
> | if you are using URIs, yoou cannot reference the representation BY
> | DEFINITION of URI.
>
> Sorry, wrong words. I meant "represent", but I think the
> "representation" already in the sentence made me mistype. So it means
> the topic represents (or reifies, or stands in for, or proxifies) the
> representation.
>
> | XTM/TMDM is just 'broken' with respect to this issue.
>
> How?
>
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