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Evolution of the WWW Given Sensor Arrays

• To: 'Ken North' <kennorth@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Evolution of the WWW Given Sensor Arrays
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:51:54 -0500

A fun question to ask oneself is what effect 
the incorporation very large sensor arrays will 
have on the evolution of the World Wide Web?

It is convenient to pretend that entities such 
as the TAG can direct that evolution through a 
set of first principles and practices, but it 
may not be more than a convenient fiction that 
dissolves as the density of real time sensor 
connections increases.

Or not.  That's the real test of those principles: 
how well they stand up to evolutionary pressures 
given uses of the technology not anticipated by 
the designers of the WWW but anticipated 
by the designers of the Internet.  It's a good 
practice to remember the WWW is yet another 
hosted system and could mutate in the face of 
increased variations of use of the host.

I would expect observable effects on subsystems first. 
XML could be an early victim because in its 
design DNA is the assumption that verbosity 
doesn't matter, or that a good-enough syntax 
really is. 

len

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