Re: loose coupling, was Re: TPAC Plenary Wednesday - rww/ldp & webid

On 9/24/12 7:22 AM, Nathan wrote:
> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 9/22/12 4:22 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>> data.fm <http://data.fm> can authenticate and do ACL but not create 
>>> a cert
>>>
>>> is it OK to point to another IdP for profile management?
>>
>> Of course !
>>
>> On the Web, rule #1 is that everything MUST be loosely coupled :-) 
>> The moment that rule is broken you have a silo in the making.
>
> Best approach to loosely coupling? APIs which consists of well known 
> media types over well known transfer protocols?
>
>

URIs as Data Source Names.

HTTP request and response metadata cognizant of mime types and status 
codes en route to enabling clients and servers communicate deductively 
(aka. RESTfully) :-)

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Received on Monday, 24 September 2012 11:38:11 UTC