Re: Web site definition
From: Joe Meadows (meadowsj@nobs.ca.boeing.com)
Date: Tue, Jan 05 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:45:47 -0800
Message-Id: <99010513454737@nobs.ca.boeing.com>
From: meadowsj@nobs.ca.boeing.com (Joe Meadows (425)957-5690 G-4780 Internet Technologies & WPx)
To: www-wca@w3.org
Subject: Re: Web site definition
>I have some concerns about your definition of the term "Web site". In
>particular, I'm not sure what the phrase "all Web pages and files under a
>common owner" means. If this means all Web pages produced by a particular
>entity (say, the W3C), I would think that this definition would be hard to
>apply in practice, since authorship of Web documents can be difficult to
>determine.
I believe that came from a set of definitions we were using within Boeing,
and reflects the usage of the terms by our own internal customers. While
it might be impossible to externally determine what makes up a "web site"
by this definition, it's clearly how our customers prefer to think of the
term. Generally multiple groups may share a single web server, but they
would be partitioned off from each other via separate directories and
separate access controls, etc. In other cases, a group may maintain a single
logical "site" that happens to span multiple web servers.
Given that there are at least three major groups (information consumers,
information providers, and infrastructure providers), each with slightly different
perspectives on some things, it might make sense to identify which terms are
used differently and how... The definitions I offerred up were developed by the
third group, intending to capture the meanings used by the first two groups..
Cheers,
Joe