RE: properties of the Internet as foundation of the Web

FWIW, here are two that immediately come to mind for me:
property : hostnames independent of network topotech     : dnsvalue2web: robust linking
property : efficient packet deliverytech     : tcp/ip, routersvalue2web: timely http message delivery
- Chris

From: Tim Berners-Lee
Sent: Wed 3/7/2007 8:42 AM
To: www-tag@w3.org
Subject: properties of the Internet as foundation of the Web


The following questions comes from the Advisory Board discussions [1]

- What properties of the Internet make it good for the Web to be  
built on up of it?

- Should the TAG document this, as well as the property of the Web  
technology itself?

Tim

[1]  Item 3 in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/ 
2007JanMar/0034  (W3C member only)