Why do Private Assets have to be Classpath Resources?

[Kris Rasmussen]

Has anyone considered adding a Private context asset, such as one that resides 
in the WEB-INF/META-INF directory? I don't see why the private asset needs be a 
classpath asset. We have stylesheet/images files that we want to keep close to 
configuration files in the WEB-INF directory but there is no easy way of making 
them available without creating a custom service.
 
I'd appreciate your opinions.
 
Kris