Changeset 2089 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Timestamp:

05/01/13 12:02:19 (10 years ago)

Author:

fielding@…

Message:

(editorial) further clarify that a representation might be old

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p2-semantics.html (modified) (1 diff)
• p2-semantics.xml (modified) (1 diff)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html

@@ -843 +843 @@
          which one can observe and act upon such a thing only through the communication of messages to some independent actor on the
          other side, then we need an abstraction to represent ("take the place of") the current or desired state of that thing in our
-         communications. We call that abstraction a "<dfn>representation</dfn>" <a href="#REST" id="rfc.xref.REST.1"><cite title="Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures">[REST]</cite></a>.
-      </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.3.p.2">For the purposes of HTTP, a <dfn>representation</dfn> is information that reflects the current or desired state of a given resource, in a format that can be readily communicated
-         via the protocol, consisting of a set of representation metadata and a potentially unbounded stream of representation data.
+         communications. We call that abstraction a representation <a href="#REST" id="rfc.xref.REST.1"><cite title="Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures">[REST]</cite></a>.
+      </p>
+      <p id="rfc.section.3.p.2">For the purposes of HTTP, a "<dfn>representation</dfn>" is information that is intended to reflect a past, current, or desired state of a given resource, in a format that can be
+         readily communicated via the protocol, and that consists of a set of representation metadata and a potentially unbounded stream
+         of representation data.
       </p>
       <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="representation.metadata" href="#representation.metadata">Representation Metadata</a></h2>

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

@@ -294 +294 @@
    abstraction to represent ("take the place of") the current or desired state
    of that thing in our communications. We call that abstraction a
-   "<x:dfn>representation</x:dfn>" <xref target="REST"/>.
-</t>
-<t>
-   For the purposes of HTTP, a <x:dfn>representation</x:dfn> is information
-   that reflects the current or desired state of a given resource, in a format
-   that can be readily communicated via the protocol, consisting of a set of
-   representation metadata and a potentially unbounded stream of
-   representation data.
+   representation <xref target="REST"/>.
+</t>
+<t>
+   For the purposes of HTTP, a "<x:dfn>representation</x:dfn>" is information
+   that is intended to reflect a past, current, or desired state of a given
+   resource, in a format that can be readily communicated via the protocol,
+   and that consists of a set of representation metadata and a potentially
+   unbounded stream of representation data.
 </t>