- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:29:21 -0700
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: "Noah Mendelsohn/Cambridge/IBM" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, www-tag@w3.org
>> "...This means that no information which has any significance and >> persistence >> should be made available in a way that one cannot refer to it with a URI. >> " >> >> That goes a long way to defining the web for me. > > me too. for many years my working definition of the web has been: > "the set of resources that you can access using URIs". > > URIs are the single fundamental technology that enables the web to exist. > we could lose http, html, perhaps even DNS and still have a working web. > (less functional, but it would still work) but without URIs, without the > ability to reference resources *outside* the boundaries of any particular > information service, there would be no web. > They are necessary, but not sufficient, to describe the Web. It is possible to implement any system using URI as identifiers -- IMAP is one example. The uniform interface semantics are necessary to differentiate the Web from the Internet. ....Roy
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