RE: Proposed issue: site metadata hook

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
> Sent: 14 February, 2003 17:11
> To: www-tag
> Subject: RE: Proposed issue: site metadata hook
> 
> 
> 
> It is necessary to determine if TimBL's limited 
> approach or solving a limited problem results 
> in an architectural decision that also limits 
> comprehensive approaches to less limited problems. 

Well, it might not limit more comprehensive approaches,
per se, but it introduces needless redundancy since
one ends up with a specific solution and a more general
solution accomplishing the same thing, and if resources
are scarce, it might be better to work on a single 
general solution to many problems rather than many
individual but distinct solutions to those problems.

Especially if we are talking about architecture rather
than applications built atop that architecture.

> That seems to be the thrust of the MGET approach. 
> Patrick might wish to propose a new issue. 

I have done so.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0200.html

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   > From: ext Tim Berners-Lee [mailto:timbl@w3.org]
   > Sent: 13 February, 2003 00:58
   > To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere)
   ...
   > but that is not the proposed TAG issue 
   > for this 
   > thread.

   Fair enough.

   If you still think I'm talking about something else, then
   I formally propose a new TAG issue -- addressing which formal
   and official extensions to HTTP are required to achieve a seamless
   and efficient interface between the Web and the Semantic Web.
]

And as I point out, I believe this broader issue
fully subsumes the issues brought up by TimBL at
the start of this thread.

Regards,

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, patrick.stickler@nokia.com

Received on Tuesday, 18 February 2003 01:46:55 UTC