[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg serv

• To: xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:21:42 -0500
• In-reply-to: <0E36FD96D96FCA4AA8E8F2D199320E52B2E562@R...>

joshuaa@m... (Joshua Allen) writes:
>This RFC, in 1994, represents a revolution.  This RFC, and the thinking
>which went into it, changed the world*.  It's the reason that TimBL is
>knighted.  By the time the 1998 draft was released, the world had
>already been changed, and bickering about "universal" vs. "uniform" was
>no longer something that would make or break the web.

I guess we'll see such notions survive the URI Zen Zone.

The 'universal' may have been transforming (if, I think, naive and
wrong) in 1994, but now it's just decaying slowly.

My real regret, though, is that I waste so much time talking about
these, so carry on.

• Follow-Ups:
  • RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

• References:
  • RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
    • From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• Next by Date: RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• Previous by thread: RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• Next by thread: RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg servers can authenticate Borg clients (Was Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread