The dark glue of the Web

An IT World article [1] from Sean McGrath in which he highlights the
potential problems of broken URLs in machine-machine comms.

I'd flip his arguments around a little, to say the Web only works
because of 404s. When talking in terms of services, I think this
provides a case for a need for flexibility in their description. I
personally think the approach taken with Semantic Web technologies can
help here - the open world model fulfilling a similar role to that of
the 404 on the Web. Dark Blu-Tak.

See also: "Missing isn't broken" [2].

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://www.itworld.com/Tech/4535/nls_ebizdarkglue050607/index.html
[2] http://rdfweb.org/mt/foaflog/archives/000047.html

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