- From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:28:22 PST
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
The Web is fundamentally designed for person-to-person communication, not program-to-program. It works OK for device-to-person as well (viewing/setting your home thermostat over the Web, for example), but only because there's a person in the loop to handle exceptions. Bill > > But as a quick-and-practical answer, because I want my thermostat to be > > a first class resource on the Web. This is what the Web was designed > > to be and do. > > if the design of the web is to coerce everything into one protocol, > it's fundamentally broken. perhaps that was the intent, but > I'm happy that things didn't work out that way.
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