- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:51:05 +0100
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, Dan Appelquist <Daniel.Appelquist@vodafone.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
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So on the call I said I thought the introductory bulleted definitions
would be more useful if they were less formal. Here's an attempt to
show what I meant:
*host*: to store something and make it available by name for users on the Web
*cache*: to store a copy of something hosted elsewhere and
likewise make it available
*distribute* [why isn't this called 'proxy' or . . . -- I find this
usage confusing]: to make something hosted elsewhere available,
without keeping a copy
*alias* [I would drop this from the initial list]: to make something
available to Web users under one name by pointing them to something with a different name
*include*: to include a copy of something from the Web in something
else, which is then made available on the Web
*link*: to reference by name something on the Web in something
else, which is itself made available on the Web
Not perfect, but maybe you get the idea.
ht
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