Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF

Hi Ruben,

I haven't been able to pull up your "distributed affordance" presentation but had a general question:

Are you thinking in terms of IPv4 or IPv6 ?
I think it makes a difference, since the Loop Back address space in IPv4 (16,777,214) puts ca. 425 people (of about 7,126,653,500 people, today, US Census Estimate) on one "anonymous" node.  IPv6 is much different, but it seems to me 425 people sharing a "party line" is much different communication than "private".  Is "privacy dead" because we ran out of virtual mail boxes ? Yikes.

--Gannon
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On Mon, 11/25/13, Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be> wrote:

 Subject: Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF
 To: "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
 Cc: "public-lod Data" <public-lod@w3.org>
 Date: Monday, November 25, 2013, 1:33 PM
 
 Hi Kingsley,
 
 >> In my talks, I say that enabling is stronger than
 affording.
 
 > Do you have a link to the talk in question?
 
 Well, it's something I always mention verbally, so
 "enabling" will not be on the slides.
 
 Nevertheless, here's a presentation on it for a wide
 audience:
 http://www.slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/the-web-a-hypermedia-story
 On slides 41–46, I explain Fielding's definition of
 hypermedia,
 with slides 44–46 specifically focusing on "affordance".
 
 And here are slides for my research project "Distributed
 Affordance" (what's in a name),
 which explains the topic in a similar way on slides 7–18:
 http://www.slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/distributed-affordance-21175728
 
 Affordance is in my opinion the crucial word that defines
 the REST architectural style,
 as its loose conversational coupling is only possible
 because representations _afford_ subsequent actions;
 RPC-style interactions just _enable_ those actions.
 
 Best,
 
 Ruben

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