Defining the Web

> The bit you excerpted does, but you clipped perhaps
> the most relevant part:
> 
>   Web Architecture is the set of rules that all agents in
>   the system follow that result in the large-scale effect
>   of a shared information space.

I tend to agree with Simon.  "set of rules" as a forward reference to
the rest of the document, doesn't make for a great opening, IMO.  I
think we could try and distill the core rules (identity, generic
interface) for this opening.

How about replacing that first paragraph with;

  The World Wide Web ("Web") is a networked information space which
  encompasses all things with identity ("resources").  Resources are
  made accessible, and potentially manipulable, via a generic interface
  whose application semantics are applicable to all resources.

MB
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Received on Thursday, 21 March 2002 21:37:54 UTC