- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 11:10:36 -0400
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > 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, Information isn't identified though, the source is what's identified. We know this because when the information changes, the identifier doesn't need to change. > representation of information state What's "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? Not IMO. I don't think any description of Web architecture is complete without acknowledging the distinction between the data and its source. AFAICT, the only way to do that is with a word that's synonymous with "resource". Mark.
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