- From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@asemantics.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:22:58 +0100
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, "ext Benja Fallenstein" <b.fallenstein@gmx.de>, "ext Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>
> Convincing admins of the acceptance of new web functionality is (in my > experience) much > easier than convincing modification to the DNS infrastructure. > > Web server functionality is typically driven by marketing > policies/need, and web > admins serve the owners of the web service. DNS is typically managed > by a different > group of admins, typically also responsible for security, etc. which > tend to, how > shall we say nicely, place less importance on marketing or general > business needs ;-) In some companies this can be an advantage; as the archive/long-term metadata people sometimes have conflicting needs to the marketing people who need to get things out quick-and dirty. And the first group, i.e. those that care about long term names and metadata, are usually not the type to 'fire off a quick question - and we MUST have this in YESTERDAY ' - but rather establish a dialoge as to what should be delegated and how to manage it for the next 20 years. Which fits with the sort of mindset around the DNS systems. But it is very much a cultural question. Dw
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