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Subject: RE: [xri] What is this XRD is for?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:22 PM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav; 'Breno de Medeiros'; xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xri] What is this XRD is for?
> 
> > Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote on 2010-02-04:
> >> Can both denote the same resource but one uses HTTP and the other
> ACCT.
> >> If an XRD has the HTTP in the subject, that's all the XRD is about.
> >> If that XRD also has the ACCT one in an alias, all it means is that
> >> the resource identified by the subject can also be identified by the
> >> alias, but it does not mean that the properties and links associated
> >> with the HTTP-identified resource apply to the ACCT-identified resource.
> 
> To clarify my complaint here, I'm understanding you to be saying these things
> (assuming there's a <Subject>):
> 
> - The content of the XRD is about a resource identified by the <Subject> URI.
> - Any <Alias> URIs identify the same resource as the <Subject> URI.
> - The content of the XRD is NOT about the resource identified by any <Alias>
> URIs

Didn't say it is NOT, just that this is not a foregone conclusion. The XRD might be about the Aliases too, but that is *application* specific (where the rat hole of resource vs representation lives).

EHL


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