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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > Roy is right about it not being "The Web". > They should be XML Internet Services (XIS). > > As far as Roy, TimBL, and the w3c lot are > concerned, they invented "The Web", they > own "The Web" and anything not of their making > or design can't use that name. I think that's an uncharitable misrepresentation. They didn't invent XML, Javascript, Java or even RDF. Yet I'm sure they would all agree that those are important web technologies. Many important web technologies are not even standardized at the W3C. (e.g. WebDAV) It takes effort to read about the web's architectural principles and try to determine what technologies fit within the architecture and do not. Most people don't want to go through that effort. It is easier to sit back and play semantic games. But it is is precisely the TAG's job to enumerate those architectural principles and figure out which technologies fit the Web architecture and which do not, just as the IETF must determine what technologies work the Internet way and which do not. If they do do their job then they will be accused of being exclusionary purists. If they don't, they simply won't accomplish anything. Paul Prescod
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