RE: Comments on arch doc draft

It means the web system cannot identify this resource.

IOW:  it says nothing about goodness, retrievability, 
existence, etc.  It simply means that in the 
context of WWW operation, this resource cannot be 
identified.  It doesn't even say it isn't a resource 
except insofar as the web architecture reserves that term 
to be isomorphic to the operation of identification.

That is not the same thing as saying the resource 
does not have identity.  

I realize y'all are going to insist on "emergent 
property of shared information space" but I hope 
at the same time, the flakiness of that phrase 
is somewhat apparent.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@xxxxxx]

>  Along the lines of "Anything which has a URI is 
> by definition a Resource and thus part of the Web.  Anything which 
> doesn't is not.

It's kinda hard to say what "X doesn't have a URI" means.
It's clear(er) what it means to say "X doesn't have
a well-known URI" or some such, but it's tricky...