- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:35:24 -0500
- To: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:06:27AM +0000, Miles Sabin wrote: > Exactly _what_ would that break? I'm not sure "break" is the right word. It would certainly reduce visibility into the message by HTTP components that relied on the assumption that the URI in the HTTP request line identified the resource being interacted with. This would make it impossible for many services to be deployed on the network (as intermediaries, say), and would instead require that they be deployed at the client where they could see the fragment id. For example, in this list[1] of Web services, only the ones that were browser extensions, such as iMarkup, would be able to fully participate in any Semantic Web transaction. The others would be useless, even if they supported RDF. In general, a lot of the desirable properties of the Web - visibility and scalability being the biggies, I think - would not be fully inherited by the Semantic Web. [1] http://www.math.grin.edu/~lindseyd/paper.html MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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