- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 10:28:29 -0500
- To: Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, xml-uri@w3.org, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
Sam Hunting wrote: > > [simon st-laurent writes] > > > From the outside of the black box, there appears to be an enormous > > > amount of randomness inside the black box. The view on the inside > > > may well be different. We simply have no way of knowing, and being > > > > told that documents published as NOTEs have 'axiomatic' status > > > makes life even more confusing. > > [tim berners-lee responds] > > (Something can be axiomatic in the design without being published at > > all!) > > Debater's points aside, the picture of a vendor consortium leading "the > Web to its "full potential" (TBL's personal architecture document) on > the basis of secret (or at least unpublished) "axioms" gives me the > chills. > > The Internet sure wasn't built this way... What makes you think it was not? I'm pretty certain it was... TCP, IP, SMTP, FTP etc. were specified and deployed long before the June 1996 publication of Architectural Principles of the Internet http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1958.txt > If there's a more attractive > picture, I'd like to hear about. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 11:29:18 UTC