- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:14:39 -0500
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Mark Nottingham quotes (Tim Bray quoting) Mark Baker proposing: >> 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. Mark Nottingham then asks: > is the TAG comfortable saying that there > a mapping of REST to every conceivable protocol > that can be used to access a resource I'm certainly not comfortable with this statement. I think you can have either universality, or a pre-constrained interface, but not both. We can't even know the sorts of resources that a universal web will have to support over the years. How about: "The World Wide Web ("Web") is a networked information space which encompasses all things with identity ("resources"). The Web architecture attempts to maximize compatibility among the interfaces used to access and manipulate Web resources." Some wordsmithing needed, but this seems more appropriate to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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