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   Re: [xml-dev] What is "the Web"

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:36:08PM -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> And each of these would be a representation, not the black hole itself.

GET can't return the thing, only a representation of the thing
identified by the URI.  It's an abstraction, as Len rightly points
out - a very useful abstraction that allows URIs to identify
anything with identity.

> There are at least two consistent ways to say that it does have identity. 

Sorry, I'm not following you down that rathole.

MB
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Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@planetfred.com
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