- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:09:59 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Murray Bent <murrayb@icis.qut.edu.au>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Murray Bent wrote: > >file upload in Hotjava??? > > OK. > > But why burden the server with anything more than a reference to > an object? Because not all objects have persistant stores (in fact, the act of uploading a file is to create a persistant store for the object, in the most useful cases). > That would require a distributed namespace implemented > in Java. And if we could get beyond naming, a lot of cool facilities > would be possible such as replication, process migration, agents, > distributed queries, as well as your favorite list of facilities. I don't think this has anything to do with Java - URCs and URNs will provide the namespace and indirection abilities the web currently lacks, through which most of the functionalities you list can be accomplished. > Why limit the Web to being a big "file system" when systems like > Lotus Notes or Microsoft Network tell us that there a better ways > of doing things and these involve ease of replication, storage, > scripting and ability to compose arbitrary chunks of content? Those better ways are being addressed - I think to say one proprietary solution is far better than what's implemented has a lot to prove. We could do a lot worse than go in the direction of seeing URC's deployed and carried over the current distribution systems (query-based like http, notification-based like smtp and flooding-based like nntp) or future systems (enntp, anyone?) Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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