- From: Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:42:01 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, xml-uri@w3.org, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
--- Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> 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!)
[Sam Hunting wrote]
> > 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 document) on the basis of secret (or at least unpublished) "axioms"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...
[Dan Connolly responds:]
> 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
TCP, IP, SMTP, FTP were developed based on "secret (or at least
unpublished) 'axioms'"? Please clarify.
S.
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