- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:33:08 -0500
- To: "'Tim Berners-Lee'" <timbl@w3.org>, Bill de hOra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, Public W3C <www-tag@w3.org>
So is terror. The difference is perceived danger. One might do well to approach the web as a network retrieval system and the semantic web as a content system which are combined by sharing a naming system that can be mapped onto locations on a network or in a document. It doesn't have to be harder than that, or more terrifying. The only bit that seems to drive people into magic is the term 'resource' and that one comes down to ontological commitment: observable and provable properties shared among committed parties to transient values. Trust but verify. len -----Original Message----- From: Tim Berners-Lee [mailto:timbl@w3.org] "Magic is anything you don't understand" (I have been known to tell kids).
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