- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:51:49 -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
On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 05:32 PM, Keith Moore wrote: >> The uniform interface semantics are necessary to differentiate the >> Web from the Internet. > > I agree that there must be some commonality across interfaces. > OTOH, the web's existence does not depend on all interfaces > to all information services having uniform semantics - only that > there is a significant degree of commonality between operations > that are supported by different information services. The Web both supplies and depends on uniform semantics. Web servers and client-side library abstractions (connectors and proxies) provide uniform semantic interfaces to other information services. Proxies work because of it. Web user-agents pass those uniform semantics on to the user through a consistent UI. That is what makes the Web desirable for information integration. The two are inseparable. ....Roy
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