- From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:33:27 PST
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- cc: brian@hursley.ibm.com (Brian E Carpenter), moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore), discuss@apps.ietf.org
This reminds me of the folks who built RPC systems by setting properties on the root window of a specified X Window System server. It was the only piece of software they had that was reasonably well implemented... Bill > I would do it for the same reason that anything ends up on the Web; > > - I can manipulate it from the same app I use to manipulate so much of > my life already; the browser > - it can leverage existing and yet-to-be-developed extensions such as > WebDAV so that access to it can be locked, versioned, etc.. > - if I forget its URL, Google can find it for me > - if my house network is unreliable, an existing cache on the network > can let me know what the last cached state of my thermostat is, and > when that state snapshot was taken > - authentication for free > - content negotiation permits my french-speaking serviceman to > also manipulate and debug it remotely through the same URL > > etc..
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