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Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution

• To: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Subject: Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:18:49 +1000
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depends. the naming system very definitely is. the physical implentation 
most certainly isn't.

too far off topic to ask "what is the internet?" but i think it's moving 
from technology to philosophy as we speak

rick

Robert Koberg wrote:

> Rick Marshall wrote:
>
>> Robert Koberg wrote:
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>>> Rick Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>>> hierarchies fail, 
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> hmmm... isn't the internet a hierarchy? has that failed?
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>>
>>
>> the internet addressing is, the www isn't - it's a large associative 
>> memory and i'd be willing to argue that's exactly why it works.
>>
>> the internet works because you find machines by following routers, 
>> often going up and down hierarchies to get to them. but routers can 
>> put non-hierarchical links into the system. there's often more than 
>> one way to get between machines.
>
>
> so? its still a hierarchy, right?
>
>
>>
>> rick
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>

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• References:
  • RE: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
    • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
  • Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
    • From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
  • Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
    • From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
  • Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
    • From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
  • Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
    • From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
  • Re: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
    • From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>

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