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Hi Roger. I think that to achieve your objective it is necessary to distinguish more carefully between 'information' and the addressing of information. The Web is an address space. To publish on the Web is to expose information to the address space of the Web, where it may be acted on in various ways and for various purposes by the mechanisms which you identify, and by others. Identifying the 'whole space of information' is a Sisyphean task: as has already been pointed out in this thread, new mechanisms for exploiting the address space of the Web have been implemented since those you list, and others surely will be developed. Furthermore, crucial information upon which those mechanisms depend is not itself published in the Web address space: the reference data and industry expertise on which services must rely, for example, in their processing of data exposed to the Web address space is likely to be proprietary and guarded. Nevertheless, that information is a crucial component of the 'whole space of information' which you seek to identify, yet it can likely only be referenced through the nexus which the service that invokes it provides to the address space of the Web. In short, then, it seems that the better way to achieve something like your objective is to catalogue the various mechanisms which utilize the address space of the Web--a list which you can expect will grow--and then to understand the ways, particularly the innovative ways, in which each exploits the unique nexus of the Web. Respectfully, Walter Perry
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