- From: Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:11:13 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, xml-uri@w3.org, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
[simon st-laurent writes]
> > From the outside of the black box, there appears to be an enormous
> > amount of randomness inside the black box. The view on the inside
> > may well be different. We simply have no way of knowing, and being
> > told that documents published as NOTEs have 'axiomatic' status
> > makes life even more confusing.
[tim berners-lee responds]
> (Something can be axiomatic in the design without being published at
> all!)
Debater's points aside, the picture of a vendor consortium leading "the
Web to its "full potential" (TBL's personal architecture document) on
the basis of secret (or at least unpublished) "axioms" gives me the
chills.
The Internet sure wasn't built this way... If there's a more attractive
picture, I'd like to hear about.
S.
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