- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:48:35 -0400
- To: DPawson@rnib.org.uk
- CC: wai-xtech@w3.org
DPawson@rnib.org.uk wrote: > > > From: Gregg Vanderheiden > > Good question. > > > > What is the WEB. It is HTTP retrievable information? Or any > > information > > retrievable over TCP/IP? Or IP? Or via other protocols? > > A simple mans view. The web is the bits of wet string that connect > the machines that allow content to be propogated / found. > > It works on the analogy side too! This from Tim Berners-Lee [1]: "My definition of the Web is a universe of network-accessible information, and I break the "full potential" into two by looking at it first as a means of human-to-human communication, and then as a space in which software agents can, though access to a vast amount of everything which is society, science and its problems, become tools to work with us." [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html Tim has said that the Web is first and foremost "defined" by URIs. HTML is just another format. HTTP is just another protocol. From Web Characterization [2]: "In this context we use them to describe the information space known as the Web." [2] http://www.w3.org/1999/05/WCA-terms/ So, in my mind, the Web is an information space. The resources in this space are identified by URIs. - Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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