Re: HTTP 1.1 document terminology.
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:43:12 +0200 (MET DST)
Jim Gettys:
>
Jim,
Your new terminology definitions look very good. I include some minor
nitpicks below.
>resource
>
>A network data object or service that can be identified by a URI
>(section 7.2). When represented electronically, a resource may be
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>either a plain resource, which corresponds to only one possible
>representation, or a generic resource.
`When represented electronically' can be removed. Better still, it
can be replaced by `At any point in time'.
>
>generic resource
>
>A resource that is a set of closely related representations of the
>same document, form, applet, etc. A generic resource is always
>identified by a URI. The individual representations may each be
>identified by a unique URI, or by the combination of the generic
>resource's URI and a variant-ID, or by the combination of the generic
>resource's URI and some "content-negotiation" mechanism. In this
>case, other URIs may exist which identify a resource more
^^^^^^^^
>specifically.
You probably mean `representation', not `resource', here.
Koen.