Re: The need for RDF in Linked Data

You know, the whole thing reminds me of the SOAP documents listing SMTP 
as an alternative transport.

And my prediction is that the whole discussion will be as fruitless.

Wake me up when the note tying Linked Data to RDF over HTTP becomes 
anything other than best practice... sorry, scratch that, sole practice.

Barry



On 17/06/13 14:33, Karl Dubost wrote:
> Luca,
>
> Luca Matteis [2013-06-17T08:34]:
>> Come on! If you're building something that works like the Web but isn't using HTTP, then it's *not* the Web. It's something else that has similar dynamics to the Web (like, I dunno, a gazillion of other things?).
>
> HTTP is an important feature of the Web, a very fundamental one. Nobody will disagree with that. BUT it is the URI which creates the Web. See Architecture of the World Wide Web.
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:19:19 GMT
> In Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
> At http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#interaction
>
> 3. Interaction
>
> Communication between agents over a network about
> resources involves URIs, messages, and data. The
> Web's protocols (including HTTP, FTP, SOAP, NNTP,
> and SMTP) are based on the exchange of messages. A
> message may include data as well as metadata about
> a resource (such as the "Alternates" and "Vary"
> HTTP headers), the message data, and the message
> itself (such as the "Transfer-encoding" HTTP
> header). A message may even include metadata about
> the message metadata (for message-integrity
> checks, for instance).
>
>

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