- From: Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:54:10 +0100
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
At 03:11 PM 4/18/02 -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: >> >>SO what am I trying to say? I'm wary of the value of technical design >>principles that cannot be technically assessed. My entry to this debate >>was trying to be clear about what was the meaning of "safe", where I saw >>two possibilities that could apply. > >I didn't bother to define "safe" in the HTTP spec because there already >exist far more definitive works in software engineering literature >that define the term completely. A search for Nancy Leveson's research >will pick up the appropriate definition. A quick search reveals work that seems to deal with safety related to fault tolerance. I had the idea that "safe" in HTTP was a slightly different idea. Could you please provide a more specific reference, or an extra keyword or two to locate the right kind of definition? Thanks, #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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