• To: mc@x... (Mike Champion)
• Subject: Re: RE: Generality of HTTP
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:46:15 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <A8OIALIF611WMKVP31VT76LJC9IGA9.3c51cb70@MChamp> from "Mike Champion" at Jan 25, 2002 04:17:36 PM

> If it is to suggest that all the wailing and gnashing about 
> preserving the purity of the Web Architecture is misdirected energy, 
> because "The Web" is a fuzzy set of all sorts of ideas and 
> technologies that more or less interoperate most of the time, then 
> I'm inclined to agree.

It only seems fuzzy because the principles behind it aren't well
understood.  In actuality, it's anything but; it's the most powerful
distributed software infrastructure that's ever been built.

MB
-- 
Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.      mbaker@p...
http://www.markbaker.ca   http://www.planetfred.com

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