- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 19 Mar 2002 23:26:50 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 20:58, Mark Baker wrote: > But the only way BEEP could be used on the Web, would be if you defined > a REST based application protocol on top. Ditto for TCP (but, er, we've > already got one of those). SMTP is an application protocol with > application semantics that are much more specific than HTTP/REST, so > you'd have to tunnel on top - I'm not sure you'd find many mail > adminstrators who'd appreciate that. > > If you don't want to obey these principles, you don't have to. But then > you're no longer on the Web, you're on the Internet. I think Mark made my point much more effectively than I did. > At this point, perhaps it would help to ask for a definition of the Web > from the TAG? Aaron previously asked about this; > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2001Dec/0015 Seems like a mission statement here makes sense. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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