- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:36:56 -0400
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: "He, Hao" <Hao.He@thomson.com.au>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:38:19PM -0400, David Orchard wrote: > If everybody grokked > the same version of a purchase order, we might be able to deploy purchase > order clients as widely as web browsers. But I can't really see that > happening. Exactly. The network effects are relatively weak due to the specific nature of a data format dedicated to describing purchase orders. Generating the massive network effects you see with HTML, but for machine-to-machine integration, requires automata to be able to extract information from document formats that they don't recognize in their entirety. This is commonly referred to as "partial understanding"; http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-webarch-extlang#Requirements Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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