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• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:11:31 -0500

Because anything truly new is also unrecognizable.  It 
will sit on the shelf while the insanely restless play 
with it and adapt it.  Over some period of time they 
will get results that others will covet and emulate. 

"To play with only this and that old hat is such a bore 
But I sadly fear the love of the ear is to hear what it heard before."
-Songwriters Lament-

That is why marketing tends to dominate business, not 
innovation.  And no, there are no new observations 
in that either.

Specifications should be designed for technologies 
that are almost ready for commercialization.  Standards 
should be written for commercial technologies with  
enough marketshare that public interests 
are affected and therefore, require obligated controls.

The very fact of the URI-centric definition of the Web 
is a sign that The Web is one of those "adapted to 
its environment" technologies.  The speculative issue 
is whether that is a fitness trait.  I should think 
so but the nature of the competition within the 
environment plays a role in determining that.  In 
effect, the web architecture of REST is a means 
to constrain competition and restrict innovation 
in the public interest.  That is intelligent 
adaptation (dharma:  restrict choice in one 
decision set to multiply choice (artha) in another).

Can anyone conceive of a change in the Internet 
environment that would make that choice unfit? 
What about for XML?  What would have to happen 
to make XML an unfit choice?   What would have 
to happen to make either more fit (not changes 
to XML or URIs, but the environment in which 
they are fielded)?

len

From: John Evdemon [mailto:jevdemon@a...]

On 20 May 2002 at 16:05, Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Unofficial motto: "REST: Everything old is new again."

We could apply this to a number of things - including a three letter 
acronym we all know and love.

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