- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:51:16 -0500
- To: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
>Let me correct this slightly: "Chandra" is of course an x-ray observatory. I >am suggesting that "Chandra" is a type of router that accepts photon (x-ray) >signals from sources such as "ncg 1086" and transforms them into electrons, >hence even objects many light years away might be considered to be "on the >web" Well, OK yes you *could* say that. But it doesn't deal with the basic point, and it stretches the notion of 'information network' to what seems to me to be an absurd degree, so that almost all the architectural claims no longer hold. For example, putting a URI up on a website does not "create a link to" a galaxy 100 million light-years away. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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