Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-03 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Jonathan, On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:05:10PM +0200, Jonathan A Rees wrote: Hmm... so from a 200 statuscode and HR14, I can conclude that I have a representation of it, that is is an IR and therefor has a representation that conveys the essential characteristics of it (definition of

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-03 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Jonathan, On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 02:05:29PM +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: I thought current representation of in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/ refers to something more like 2) and definitely not to mere descriptions but when I look at it there seems to be nothing

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
hi all On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: maybe I made an error by assuming that the term IR is inherent in the term representation - by assuming that a NIR cannot have a representation, only descriptions ? No. The whole point about the use of the term IR

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/1/12 4:35 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: hi all On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: maybe I made an error by assuming that the term IR is inherent in the term representation - by assuming that a NIR cannot have a representation, only descriptions ? No. The

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/1/12 11:42 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 4/1/12 4:35 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: hi all On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: maybe I made an error by assuming that the term IR is inherent in the term representation - by assuming that a NIR cannot have a

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread David Booth
On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 10:35 +0200, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: The whole point about the use of the term IR in HR14 seems to be to say: Everything that has a representation has a representation that conveys it's essential characteristics. Is this important ? If yes, should we write it this

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Kingsley, Everything that has a representation has a representation that conveys it's essential characteristics. [...] Aren't we somehow losing the fundamental fact that all resources on the Web are supposed to be bear self-describing content, constrained by mime type. That when all

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/1/12 12:31 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: Hello Kingsley, Everything that has a representation has a representation that conveys it's essential characteristics. [...] Aren't we somehow losing the fundamental fact that all resources on the Web are supposed to be bear self-describing

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread David Booth
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:32 -0400, Jonathan A Rees wrote: [ . . . ] So this is something we already knew from the HTTP spec, which all of us pretty much agree to; We all agree to it as a *protocol* specification -- not as a *semantics* specification. [ . . . ] On the other hand the specs are

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-01 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/1/12 9:42 PM, David Booth wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:32 -0400, Jonathan A Rees wrote: [ . . . ] So this is something we already knew from the HTTP spec, which all of us pretty much agree to; We all agree to it as a *protocol* specification -- not as a *semantics* specification. [ .

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-31 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
hi all The document at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/ uses the term X (a sequence of octets + media type) is a representation of Y (an entity). I have a question: Can two different entities have the same representation ? If not, we can define an IR as a thing for which there is

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-31 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: hi all The document at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/ uses the term X (a sequence of octets + media type) is a representation of Y (an entity). I have a question: Can two different entities have

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-31 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Jonathan, maybe I made an error by assuming that the term IR is inherent in the term representation - by assuming that a NIR cannot have a representation, only descriptions ? But if a a NIR cannot have a representation and two different IRs cannot have the same representation, then

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-31 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/31/12 11:32 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: In any case information resource as used in HR14a is well connected to AWWW and I think redefining the term, no matter how bad the definition, would just confuse things. You could say HTTP resource or something for resources that have representations

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-31 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Jonathan, On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:54:09AM -0400, Jonathan A Rees wrote: I have a question: Can two different entities have the same representation ? I've never heard anything say anything that would rule this out. Hmm... so from a 200 statuscode and HR14, I can conclude that I have

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-30 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:20 PM, David Booth da...@dbooth.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 20:51 -0400, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jeni Tennison j...@jenitennison.com wrote: [ . . . ] But then we would also have to define what 'content' and 'description' meant. I

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-30 Thread Pat Hayes
On Mar 27, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: This seems an appropriate place for me to drop in my 2 cents. I like the 303 trick. People that care about this stuff can use it (and appear to be doing so), but it doesn't really matter too much that people that don't care don't use it. It

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-30 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Jeni Tennison j...@jenitennison.com wrote: I see best practices as being separate from normative requirements, and thought that the proposals were for the normative requirements. We did recognise in the proposal the requirement for a best practice document

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-30 Thread Jeni Tennison
Jonathan, On 30 Mar 2012, at 18:10, Jonathan A Rees wrote: My opinion is that any proposal needs to specify a way to say how you get from a resource to its content. I do a SPARQL query and find a URI for a resource based on metadata (stored in the triple store) that make it seem interesting;

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-29 Thread David Booth
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 01:37 +0100, Norman Gray wrote: [ . . . ] Thus as it stands, the term 'information resource' in [1] has no implication (beyond incidentally reiterating that the 200-retrieved content is a (REST) representation of the resource). However, the point of introducing the term

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. [This is a late response, because I dithered about sending it, because this whole thing seems simple enough that I've got to be missing stuff] On 2012 Mar 27, at 14:02, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: Hello

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Norman, let me summarize that: -Regardless of how you define IR, everything that denotes what it accesses should lie in IR. -Putting something in NIR therefor also answers the question if it denotes what it accesses with no by entailment. -There may or may not be IRs that do not

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk wrote: Greetings. [This is a late response, because I dithered about sending it, because this whole thing seems simple enough that I've got to be missing stuff] On 2012 Mar 27, at 14:02, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue,

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hallo Norman, -Regardless of how you define IR, everything that denotes what it accesses should lie in IR. -Putting something in NIR therefor also answers the question if it denotes what it accesses with no by entailment. I have worded this very badly. We are talking about things and

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Gray
Michael, hello. On 2012 Mar 28, at 22:35, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: For all URIs U: denote(U) = access(U) - denote(U) a IR It follows: For all URIs U: denote(U) not a IR - denote(U) != access(U) I think it's impossible, within the terms of HR14, to say 'denote(U) not a IR' -- you can

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Tim, On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:59:42PM -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: 12) Still people say well, to know whether I use 200 or 303 I need to know if this sucker is an IR or NIR when instead they should be saying Well, am I going to serve the content of this sucker or information about

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Danny Ayers
This seems an appropriate place for me to drop in my 2 cents. I like the 303 trick. People that care about this stuff can use it (and appear to be doing so), but it doesn't really matter too much that people that don't care don't use it. It seems analogous to the question of HTML validity. Best

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/27/12 7:59 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: This seems an appropriate place for me to drop in my 2 cents. I like the 303 trick. People that care about this stuff can use it (and appear to be doing so), but it doesn't really matter too much that people that don't care don't use it. It seems analogous

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: Hello Tim, On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:59:42PM -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: 12) Still people say well, to know whether I use 200 or 303 I need to know if this sucker is an IR or NIR when instead they should be

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/27/12 9:02 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: A prime example is any DOI, e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000462 (try doing conneg for RDF). I don't always have to seek or need RDF. I just need structured data. I can make Linked Data from non RDF resources. See: 1.

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 3/27/12 9:02 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: A prime example is any DOI, e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000462 (try doing conneg for RDF). I don't always have to seek or need RDF. I just need

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 3/27/12 9:02 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: Maybe the TAG or someone has to make a statement admitting that the way httpRange-14(a) was phrased was a big screwup, that the real issue is content vs. description, not a type distinction. It should! -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder CEO

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Jonathan, so let the question be did I GET what the URI denotes and let httprange14 be 200 - yes, 303 - no. Let another question be can this URI be used with document annotation properties (or: Is this URI an IR) ? From 200 a statuscode, I can infer that the URI can be used with document

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: Hello Jonathan, so let the question be did I GET what the URI denotes and let httprange14 be 200 - yes, 303 - no. Basically yes, although you have to be careful preserve the generic/specific (or

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Leigh Dodds
Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan A Rees r...@mumble.net wrote: ... There is a difference, since what is described could be an IR that does not have the description as content. A prime example is any DOI, e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000462 (try doing conneg

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Leigh Dodds le...@ldodds.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan A Rees r...@mumble.net wrote: ... There is a difference, since what is described could be an IR that does not have the description as content. A prime example is any DOI, e.g.

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Bergman
Hi Jonathan, On 3/27/2012 3:27 PM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Leigh Doddsle...@ldodds.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan A Reesr...@mumble.net wrote: ... There is a difference, since what is described could be an IR that does not have the

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Jonathan A Rees
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Mike Bergman m...@mkbergman.com wrote: Hi Jonathan, On 3/27/2012 3:27 PM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Leigh Doddsle...@ldodds.com  wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan A Reesr...@mumble.net  wrote: ... There

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Jeni Tennison
Jonathan, On 27 Mar 2012, at 14:02, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: This whole information resource thing needs to just go away. I can't believe how many people come back to it after the mistake has been pointed out so

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread David Wood
Hi all, On Mar 27, 2012, at 18:01, Jeni Tennison wrote: Jonathan, On 27 Mar 2012, at 14:02, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: This whole information resource thing needs to just go away. I can't believe how many people

NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-26 Thread Tim Berners-Lee
On 2012-03 -25, at 14:06, Norman Gray wrote: Tim, greetings. On 2012 Mar 25, at 17:35, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: (Not useful to talk about NIRs. The web architecture does not. Now does Jonathan's baseline, not HTTP Range-14. Never assume that what an IR is about is not itself a IR.)