- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:15:56 +0200
- To: public-web-http-desc@w3.org
- Cc: sean.mcgrath@propylon.com
An IT World article [1] from Sean McGrath in which he highlights the potential problems of broken URLs in machine-machine comms. I'd flip his arguments around a little, to say the Web only works because of 404s. When talking in terms of services, I think this provides a case for a need for flexibility in their description. I personally think the approach taken with Semantic Web technologies can help here - the open world model fulfilling a similar role to that of the 404 on the Web. Dark Blu-Tak. See also: "Missing isn't broken" [2]. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://www.itworld.com/Tech/4535/nls_ebizdarkglue050607/index.html [2] http://rdfweb.org/mt/foaflog/archives/000047.html -- http://dannyayers.com
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