- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:47:33 -0400
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, wsawg public <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
(Just so that this message is not misunderstood, I am not objecting to Chris's currently proposed wording for D-AC009.2, because I believe the issue is more relevant to the resulting Working Groups and technologies than the Architecture WG itself. However I do want to point out one thing for the benefit of future decisions . . . ) At 02:00 PM 5/21/2002 -0400, Champion, Mike wrote: >the WS requirements should be >driving the SW requirements rather than vice versa. I think it would be very dangerous to reverse the requirement like that. Web Services is important, but it isn't more important than the Web as a whole. The Semantic Web is just the incremental advancement of the Web as a whole to be more useful. (Specifically, to enable you to find, share and combine information much more easily.) It isn't a separate Web application. Web Services needs to work with the Web -- not the other way around. If we were to turn the requirement around, then we would risk Web Services fracturing or inhibiting the Web as a whole, which would be very bad indeed. -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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