- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 06 Sep 2002 16:34:50 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
While I was redrafting 2.2.1, it occured to me that we should have, somewhere, something like: [[side note about "The Web" and "one web". Just like you can use Internet technologies to build a network that's disconnected from the big-I Internet, you can apply Web architecture to systems that are disconnected from The Web. Regardless, in any use of Web architecture, there will be one Web, and one global scope.]] Hmm... it might even be more subtle than that... The Web, to me, right now, includes stuff that I call file:/home/connolly/,syz.ps that isn't 'reachable' by most of the rest of you, but it also includes shared stuff like w3.org, amazon, yahoo, etc. A corporate intranet user's web probably has a bunch of servers on the LAN plus the general public web. It's perhaps not an aside, but rather an important feature of Web Architecture that each of us can pretend that there's One Web... the fact that the intranet guy can't dereference my postscript file is in some formal/technical sense an error or anomaly, but in practice, it doesn't cost either of us any trouble at all. The fact that the system as a whole hangs together even though each of us tweaks it locally is a pretty big feature, now that I think about it. (of course, it's not novel to the Web. Internet technologies all work like this.) -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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