- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:59:14 -0500
- To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
At 10:35 AM +0200 2/13/03, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote: >Fair enough. But you seem to be implying that the web architecture >should allow a user to override the rights of the web site owner. That >if the web owner says "no robots here" that the user should still >be allowed to invite them in. That's what you suggested in your >original post. I think you're confusing the web site with the web server. They are not the same things; especially in the case of systems like GeoCities and IBiblio. Indeed there can be a many-to-many relationship between sites and servers when mirror sites are considered. Yes, I do think site owners should be allowed to invite robots in, even if the server owner says no. I think the web architecture needs to focus on the sites, not the servers. In the ideal web, the actual servers with their physical addresses and network connections would vanish into the background. I think a server owner who does not provide users with the necessary means to participate in the web should be castigated the same as one who insists on providing a web server that fails to properly implement HTTP. Part of the job of the W3C and the tag is to tell the server owners and software vendors what is expected of them and their products in order to participate in the web. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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