- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:46:23 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:13:57PM -0700, Larry Masinter wrote: > It would be very bad if the web architecture REQUIRED > or even ENCOURAGED implementors of widely used media > types to actually go off and GET the namespace URI. > So a web design that had browsers actually trying > to connect to www.w3.org and "GET /1999/xhtml" whenever > they tried to open an XHTML document ... well, that would > be a bad design. I agree. I think that REST's stateless interaction constraint[1] suffices for saying just this, as it requires that all information which is necessary to understand a message, is part of the message itself. IMO, I think there's a lot that the Architecture Document could, and should, say about it, as I personally consider it the second most valuable architectural constraint on the Web (behind the uniform interface, of course). For example, its role in contracts and digital signatures, its contribution to reliability, etc.. [1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_3 MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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