- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:29:07 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Janet Daly wrote: > As W3C has grown, there have been more frequent requests for > documentation of architectural principles that cross multiple > technologies. People ask, "How do W3C technologies fit together? > What basics must people know before they start developing a new > technology?" They may ask this about the W3C, but the WWW is a much larger community, and a much wider context. > To improve the effectiveness of Working Groups, to reduce > misunderstandings and overlapping work, and to improve the > consistency of Web technologies developed inside and outside W3C, > the W3C Advisory Board, with input from the W3C Team and Members, > developed the proposal for a TAG. Almost five years ago, the following exchange took place on comp.text.sgml. :> The Internet is data plumbing. Sure would be nice to get :> standard parts and tools. : : Sigh. You're really missing the big picture: the internet is a : monument to decentralization, forward thinking, minimalist : design, and interoperability. Standard tools would be the : death of the phonomenon as we know it. Who was right? (A Google usenet search for "plumbing" and "decentralization" in comp.text.sgml will find the thread.) Arjun
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