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

On 4 July 2012 19:43, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

>  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> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
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>> > On 7/4/12 9:37 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote:
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>> >>> >integrate with the web.
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>> >> 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.
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>> > 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 :)
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> 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).
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> 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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This is correct.  But a widely used protocol like HTTP benefits from 20
years of tooling and the network effect, which translates into a big
advantage, to those that embrace it.

Of the newer protocols (eg webfinger to name one of many) , it's anyone's
guess which will succeed.  But, I watch on with interest :)


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