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8/13/2002 10:12:32 AM, Paul Prescod <paul@p...> wrote: >This is XML-DEV, not ws-arch. We're not making legal judgements. If Tim >Berners-Lee and Roy Fielding are not "authoritative" on the topic of web >architecture then I suppose the Wrights were not authoritative on the >topic of airplane design. It was the assertion "It isn't Web architecture if it doesn't use obey the constraints discussed here" that motivated my response. Anyway, "Revered pioneers" are not necessarily "authoritative" once a technology gets off the ground, so to speak. Subsequent innovators didn't worry too much about what the Wright brothers might have thought about the "aereonautical correctness" of their designs, AFAIK. Furthermore, as I understand it, far from being authoritative, the most interesting question about the Wrights these days is how the original flyer could have ever stayed aloft, given that its design was so contrary to subsequent theory and practice. One might be tempted dig for an analogy with the RESTifarian principle that cookies are evil with the actual practice of most commercial websites .... <grin> So, we can study and give honor to the pioneering thoughts expressed in the TimBL and Fielding documents without accepting that anything violating their constraints is not part of the "Web architecture". Let's talk about the web as it is, and learn from what works, whether or not the reality was what was envisioned by the pioneers. Again, my humble and personal opinion.
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