Jonathan,
The httpRange-14 resolution [1] is about identification (of a thing
by/to an http server), not reference.
"httpRange-14" is an *engineer* but not a *philosophical/ontological*
solution because a server response code such as 200/303/404 etc. do not
tell you more about what you already know or don't know about the URI.
For instance, if I 303 redirect your potato URI to an RDF document,
where I am talking about anything but your potato. Would I be wrong? I
don't think so because I might be such a bad/excellent philosopher who
happens to think everything is related.
HTTP specs is an engineer protocol, it instructs how client/server
suppose to communicate. But HTTP spec does not govern the meaning of the
returned resource/thing. AWWW just happens to ride on top of it and
give it some interpretation. HttpRange-14 is *not* about identification
but is a solution to relate and disambiguite two closely related
things. There is nothing wrong if one URI is used to identify both me
and my RDF representation. It just makes it difficult to talk about the
RDF-less me and the me-less RDF.
Xiaoshu
