- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:11:13 -0800
- To: Roy Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
The TAG feels that the tone of the RDF is likely to promote fragmentation. Roy, Here is the gist/fodder of the proposed comment on RFC 3205. You were going to write a comment Whereas tunneling of application protocols over application protocols is generally messy, the reuse of HTTP in keeping with its design principles is a good thing. Indeed, the use of HTTP to create web of information should not be limited to "conventional web browsing". A very large number of applications for data and commerce will hopefully publish all kinds of data for use by all kinds of ways. To attempt to partition this space of data, even though it contains many applications, is bad, because interoperability across applications is extremely valuable. Also, human-readable "traditional" web pages and machine-readable resources are often closely connected, and must often be, in practice, run on the same server on the same port. It is quite reasonable for a web server server, on port 80 to serve a great variety, There are many new applications in which there may be a temptation to invent a new protocol, but a much better way is to reuse HTTP. This cuts down code size, and reuses features such as proxy caching and all the tools and support which exists for HTTP. (Maybe draw attention to the relevant TAG findings about HTTP get, etc) Tim bl
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