Re: Let's blow some new life into this community group

On 7/4/12 12:19 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 4 July 2012 17:44, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org 
> <mailto:michiel@unhosted.org>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Kingsley Idehen
>     <kidehen@openlinksw.com <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>     > On 7/4/12 9:37 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> >integrate with the web.
>     >>
>     >> when you say 'integrate with the web', maybe you mean
>     sparql+rdfbase
>     >> again, if so, then i probably disagree that we want to impose that
>     >> choice.
>     >
>     >
>     > He means, the basic pattern of the Web. Denote (name) things
>     using URIs. Use
>     > URIs that resolve to useful information. That's it.
>     >
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>     ok, then we agree :)
>
> Yes that's right.  And in a certain way, HTTP is one of the focal 
> points, for the web.  Two nice things with HTTP are 1) it has a large 
> and growing network effect 2) that it can be made to interact with 
> other protocols (is kind of what I was saying above).
>

Remember, we don't need to be protocol specific. Just use the best 
protocol for the task at hand. That's the beauty of URI abstraction re. 
entity denotation (naming) and de-reference (resolution) to useful 
information, via the Web :-)

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