- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:36:22 -0500
- To: 'Sandro Hawke' <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: 'Tim Berners-Lee' <timbl@w3.org>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Going off the deep end, Sandro, but the topic tempts the abstractor in me. :-) If the term 'information space' is going to be used, it will need some formal or informal definition whose scope may only be the arch document itself. The web architecture itself, is defined in terms of the systems. One can say that the web space is a product of the use of these systems. One can say that use of the these systems creates the space by mapping names to addresses and that any *time* a name is mapped to an address, and information space is created. There is no distinction between a resource as a provider and as information. Information 'on the web' is different from 'information space'. It is in it's own space whose dimensions does not concern the web as they are always in local space and subject to local measures. This is not dissimilar to creating a coordinate space by declaring an origin. The abstraction of web space exists independently such that there can be many origins but there must be one world origin. For the purpose of this architecture, the world origin is the concept of the web space, but any origin for any information space within it is declared by mapping a name to an address. The web space is abstract, but spaces created within it are real and are self-organizing. What is found within the space may be abstract, but is a different information than the existence of the information space. That is too mystical for me too, but I am not submitting text to be included in the document, just trying to suggest that the operation of declaration creates the space and avoiding the issues of measures and dimensions within the space (thus ducking out on scale relativity and the hobgoblins of uncertainty given probabilistic estimators). len
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