At 10:58 AM -0400 3/20/08, John Cowan wrote: >Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol) scripsit: > >> Hard to deploy? Well, yes and no depending on the server software >> you are using and your access priviledges. That's a pragmatic problem >> induced by the design of servers and the admin policies under which >> they operate. It's not a problem of Architecture. > >If you want Aunt Tillie to participate in the Semantic Web as a publisher >and not just a passive consumer, in the same way that she can participate >in the Document Web today, then you can't brush off the problem as >merely pragmatic. Architecture has to live within the constraints of >its host environment, or it's mere beating the air. Never mind Aunt Tillie. If you want anyone in a managed IT environment to do this, forget it. Its simply impossible. That is most of the programmers on the planet, I would guess. And no web-hosting service is going to allow its users to do this, either. So if the TAG makes a RrrrrULING like this, the entire world outside the W3C is just going to smile tolerantly and ignore it. Pat >-- >Go, and never darken my towels again! John Cowan > --Rufus T. Firefly http://ccil.org/~cowan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.flickr.com/pathayes/collections
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