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Re: What is "the Web"

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: What is "the Web"
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:46:57 -0400
• Cc: AndrewWatt2000@a..., michael.h.kay@n..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020426091322.04625ea8@p...>; from jonathan.robie@d... on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:19:10AM -0400
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:19:10AM -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> There is no one thing called "the Web", there are many different loosely 
> bound technologies being used in a wide variety of ways.

That's simply not true.  The Web is the information space comprising
all things with identity, whose interaction semantics are constrained
to being generic to all things with identity.

The Web does have a boundary.  It's just a very very VERY big one.

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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