- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:11:16 -0700
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, "Jan Algermissen" <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>, "Paul Denning" <pauld@mitre.org>, public-web-http-desc@w3.org
I'm finding that my biggest use case for a Web description format (at the risk of repeating myself) is at design time; architects and developers need something that encourages them to think in terms of stateful resources, and a common documentation format is immensely helpful. There are other cases -- e.g., generating stubs, hinting configuration, etc., but I think that's the big one. On 2006/06/08, at 7:18 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > I think that's part of what we're trying to determine. Having built a > handful of machine-to-machine Web based systems, none of which needed > a "description language" (nor would they have benefitted from one, > IMO), I'm skeptical that there's a big enough problem here that > requires a new standard (rather than reusing, say, XForms). But I'm > happy to be convinced otherwise. -- Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.com
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