Re: Terminology
From: Jim Pitkow (pitkow@parc.xerox.com)
Date: Mon, Dec 28 1998
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Message-Id: <4.1.19981228062743.009ec4f0@mailback.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 06:28:19 PST
To: Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>, www-wca@w3.org
From: Jim Pitkow <pitkow@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Terminology
Great - I'll add these definitions and post a new version.
At 05:39 AM 12/18/98 , Johan Hjelm wrote:
>Good work, but I missed a few definitions:
>
>Log file
>(can a log file be a database - and handled in a DBMS?)
>Server
>Proxy
>(we need to define the difference between servers and proxies - that
>becomes quite important from a characterisation point of view)
>Trace
>Protocol trace
>(these are mentioned several times in our work, but there is no clear
>definition - might be useful)
>Also, on the concepts of session, cookie, page view (etc), I think we might
>need to look at how this is defined in the existing litterature. It would
>be easier for others to accept our work if we used the same terminology as
>the general world (and if that is wrong, we need to help them correct it).
>
>More are sure to come
>
>Johan
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