- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:11:06 -0700
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Oh, I see what you are getting at, though now we are also facing
confusion over "networked" (meaning connected like a graph) versus
spanning the Internet network. Let's go back to the base concepts:
The World Wide Web is an information space consisting of resources
that are interconnected by links defined within that space.
Maybe that is sufficient to describe the scope of the Web? We can
then describe the different types of links when we describe the
different information systems later in the document (not abstract),
e.g.,
A link defines a relationship that can be considered active or
passive, depending upon the type of information system in use.
For example, hypertext browsers consider anchors and in-line image
references to be active links (hyperlinks), whereas a reasoning
system might focus activity on namespace references, a
messaging agent might traverse service descriptions, or a
subscriber might describe "callback" control-points.
Would that help?
....Roy
Received on Monday, 29 September 2003 21:11:19 UTC