- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:11:14 -0500
- To: "'Mike Dierken'" <mike@dataconcert.com>, "'Ian B. Jacobs'" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
It isn't useful. The government may or may not know they can outlaw the tides, but they can try. The statement in the text is such that it infers that deep linking is not illegal. In fact, it may or may not be. The social codes govern social behavior. Setting up a deep link is a social behavior because the web architecture does not differentiate; therefore, it should be silent. That is quite a different issue from technical members of the community informing the representatives of various governments that preventing deep linking is possible but not mandatory in terms of the web architecture. This is to say, in effect, creation of a code to penalize deep linking is a matter of local law, not web architecture. The web simply does not care. len -----Original Message----- From: Mike Dierken [mailto:mike@dataconcert.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:05 PM To: Bullard, Claude L (Len); 'Ian B. Jacobs'; www-tag@w3.org Subject: RE: 13 Aug Arch Doc available for review > > In short, the TAG cannot normatively state what is or is > not "legal" with respect to social governance. I think the point was that the TAG can inform the larger community of what is and is not possible - in the same way that a meteorologist would inform a government that outlawing the tides is not possible.
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