Re: XML Schema draft populates the intersection of Language and InformationResource [ISSUE-14 httpRange-14]

On Sep 28, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Dan Connolly wrote:

> I'd really rather not put 303 redirect configuration in the  
> critical path to deployment of garden variety Semantic Web data.  
> The <doc#term> technique is available to ordinary authors who can  
> only use ftp to upload data to the web.

Dan,

This is a critical point, and one of the basic problems with aligning  
the RDF world with the web and particularly http. On the Semantic  
Web, we need to see everything visible in the RDF. Anything that  
encodes some aspect of the meaning of a thing in the http protocol  
and doesn't surface it in the RDF will lose when made available by  
any other protocol (like from a triple store). It's one of the  
reasons that content negotiation is a loser for the Semantic Web,  
and, similarly, solutions that rely on response codes such as 303,  
since both of these mechanisms are http dependent.

-Alan

Received on Sunday, 30 September 2007 05:47:53 UTC