RE: [tm-pubsubj] New Gentle Introduction

[Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>]

Thanks for your feedback, Thomas.

At 13:22 20.02.2003 +0100, Bandholtz, Thomas wrote:
>I like Steve's images, but something is missing:
>
>1. The human actor is always the actor, even if she uses a machine to 
>interprete something machine-readable. The human actor is not named "human 
>interpretable", as it looks in the pictures :-)

That one can be easily fixed. I'll extend the arrows upwards and move the 
text to the right of them.

Your second point is more problematic. What worries me is your concern for 
the needs of the machine (or agent).

In my view of things, the machine will not even try to resolve the URL that 
is the subject identifier. It will simply compare it with another URL as a 
string.

>But, even if XPointer would be implemented, this would not solve the 
>problem. The human reader wants to see a formated document - the machine 
>needs pure XTM.

For the purpose of establishing identity there is no need for a "machine 
readable" subject indicator at all. In other words, the machine does *not* 
need "pure XTM" ... all it needs is the URL.

Or have I misunderstood what you were trying to say?

Steve

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