- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:48:55 +0100
- To: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
Futher to discussion at the recent f2f, and With a lot of help from Marcos and Yves, we have a staging area on GitHub [1] for a _possible_ second edition [2] of AWWW [3]. I emphasise that the TAG have _not_ yet decided to do this, rather we are _considering_ it. I have said I'll consider trying to edit a new edition _provided_ we can satisfy ourselves that the scope of the effort can be effectively limited. Of the various wedges whose thin edges we can anticipate threatening to turn into dangerous scope-creep, terminology is definitely high on the list. One example: At the f2f, Tim Berners-Lee mentioned that he would prefer to drop all use of the word 'resource'. I too would like to do this, and indeed I recently posted [2] to this list a pointer to a talk I gave which introduces an approach to the httpRange-14 issue which avoids the word. To try to take this conversation forward, [1][2] contain (with diffs highlighted) a new Abstract, which removes 'resource', and introduces the 'active' aspect of the Web, as follows: The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable interconnected space of information and services, growing across languages, cultures and media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web. They are identification of information and services, representation of information state and service requests, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents in the space. We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support. Does this look like the kind of direction we'd like to move in? ht [1] https://github.com/w3ctag/webarch [2] http://w3ctag.github.io/webarch/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013May/0056.html -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]
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