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RE: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution

  • To: "Robert Koberg" <rob@k...>,"Rick Marshall" <rjm@z...>
  • Subject: RE: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
  • From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:53:00 -0500
  • Cc: "Michael Champion" <mc@x...>,"xml-dev DEV'" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Thread-index: AcQ+z0V4Zrbga/x4RwOqOi9WiI4GOwAa03dA
  • Thread-topic: Designing XML to Support Information Evolution

RE:  Designing XML to Support Information Evolution
Robert Koberg <rob@k...> asks:
> 
> Rick Marshall wrote:
> 
> > Robert Koberg wrote:
> > 
> >> Rick Marshall wrote:
> >>
> >>> hierarchies fail,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> hmmm... isn't the internet a hierarchy? has that failed?
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
>

I'd say no.  If anything it's a lattice or a general graph, but it's not
a hierarchy;  there are too many interconnections, even at the DNS and
IP assignment levels...


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