RE: Arch Doc: 26 September 2003 Editor's Draft

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 17:01, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> I guess we have to live with the imprecision of 
> natural language where terms are related out 
> of context to cope with our inability to express 
> a logical definition.  Selah.
> 
> "The World Wide Web is an information space."
> 
> So is the trunk of our Ford Focus after my 
> wife loads it up with bags of bar coded groceries.
> 
> If all of the 'documents' that can be retrieved 
> by dereferencing a URI were to simultaneously 
> disappear, what would be left?

In tweaking Roy's proposal, I hoped to call out
more clearly three concepts that have been discussed
lately: information space, information system, and
web architecture. They are not precisely defined
in this draft of the document, but there is a clearer
sense (thanks to comments from folks on the list)
that the info space is shared by more than one info
system.

Whatever those are. 

I expect we will either be more precise about what
those are, or decide we don't need to be.

Suggestions welcome!

 _ Ian

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