- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:48:10 -0500
- To: public-ws-addressing@w3.org
+1. Guidance = constraints. On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:31:15PM -0500, David Booth wrote: > > The question is: What guidance are we giving to the world? > > As you point out, we cannot stop people from doing things in ways that > are anti-Web, nor should we. For whatever reasons, sometimes someone > may *need* to address Web resources using something other than a URIs. > > But what *guidance* are we giving? If Reference Properties are kept in > the spec, we would be *endorsing* a practice that is harmful to the Web > as a whole. > > On the other hand, if we drop Reference Properties, people who really > need to address Web resources using non-URIs could still (ab)use > Reference *Parameters* to accomplish the same result, just as they > sometimes use cookies to do so today. Thus, they would not be prevented > from doing what they may need to do, but they would be encouraged to do > things the Web way.
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