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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Redefining the meaning of common nouns
 From: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...> > I thought that the point about Web Services(TM) was that they were > interfaces to services intended to be processed by machines rather than > presented to human beings. Yes. > I would posit that less than 1 in 20 > "self-declared Web Services" uses any formal discovery mechanism and > less than half have a service discovery. To explain my POV, let me make a distinction between a resource being "on" the Web or "in" the Web. If it is merely "on" the Web, it does not have any links pointing to it. If a resource is "in" the Web, it has links from other resources to it. So Google is great because it puts a lot of resources that are "on" the Web "in"to the Web: a discovery or advertising service. A service that has no means of discovery (i.e. a link) or advertising is "on" the Web but not "in" the Web, under those terms. It just happens to use a set of protocols but it is not part of a web. So it should not be called a web service, just an unlinked-to resource. Of course, I understand that many people want to define the WWW as a namespace of URIs rather than as a web of nodes and arcs: a resource without any links is a fly waiting to be caught in the Web. Cheers Rick Jelliffe 
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