On 24 Mar 2009, at 14:23, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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Bijan,
I am not assuming naivety on your part.
Didn't suggest you were.
Just was pointing out that my not understanding your questions or
arguments was not a function of being naive about identity.
I just want to focus on the essence of my comments to Michel and
Peter who have issues with the use of 303 redirection to achieve
separation of datum identity from descriptive representation, when
using a particular URI scheme.
Dude, you put these words together, but my eyes hide them from me.
"Datum identity"? What the heck IS that? And do I really need to
care? Why do you want to achieve separation of it from descriptive
representation? What about non-descriptive representation?
I am simply interested in explaining to them what this is trying to
achieve since it remains a strange point of contention. I use the
word "strange" because I believe that the mechanics of the process
are obscuring the fundamental concept in play: Object Identity.
Ok, but object identity and entity identity (e.g., the identity of
the denotation of two expressions) are fairly different things. E.g.,
objects, in the sense of object identity in OODBMS, are features of,
er, objects in the programming language sense. OMG! We're back to
confusing Records and Things, only, in the surprise twist, YOU'RE the
one mixing them up?
My world shakes...
Cheers,
Bijan.
