- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 03:27:34 -0800 (PST)
- To: Jon Wallis <j.wallis@wlv.ac.uk>
- Cc: Robert Hazeltine <rhazltin@zeppo.nepean.uws.edu.au>, www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Jon Wallis wrote: > How about somewhere becoming a "copyright library" for the Web? Web authors > would be required to supply their URL to this site, which would then > classify and catalogue the page (for fee). > <take tongue out of cheek> Actually what I think we will see are publishers which offer "permanent" archives for documents, which serve two purposes: 1) A long-lived URL for future reference, no matter what happens to the admistrative and/or logistical infrastructure surrounding the original author/publisher. 2) A legal asset which is validated by its datestamp and submitter (either through a public key or some out-of-band verification) and thus stands as proof of existance for copyright and contractual reasons. "Permanent" as in, its archive is protected by a trust fund of some sort or a government-backed insurance policy, sort of like the FDIC insurance for banks. In other words, this database will survive, much like how graveyards survive even in urban areas because a sufficiently large trust fund was able to provide rent and sustenance through interest earned. There are other non-html issues surrounding this like public key crypto, URN's, URC's, etc, so I don't expect too much conversation about this on this list... Joe english writes: > Here's a thought: how about using the Usenet newsgroup hierarchy as a > classification scheme? I.e., "if this Web page were a Usenet article, > in which newsgroup(s) would it belong?" Are you crazy? Usenet as a model hierarchical classification scheme? bwahaha. Ack - sorry. I think a lot more success would had using simple keywords. To accomplish what you want, though, it would seem like a variant of the <LINK> tag, which is designed for use as a "this document is related to this other document"-ish expression. Not a direct link, but something user-agents could use in interesting ways.... Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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