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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > Someone somewhere knows what the URI identifies and > has to tell you. Yes. Typically Yahoo or Google. Maybe UDDI if you are into that. > "A closed world problem is one where you know all of the users, you can share > a data model with them, and you can all communicate directly as to your needs." Right. And with a universal namespace, the universe becomes your "closed world." > get(myName, "you know my name; lookup the number") > > ain't that brilliant. Seems to me that if all you > want is that, you don't want web services; you want > a telephone operator with a local exchange so you > can call and ask for a service from a global exchange > and hope the locals don't put you on hold or lose > the context of the request. Otherwise, how would > you comparison shop? (Progressive customers expect > comparison pricing...). If the context of the request is another URI then to keep it all you need to do is keep the URI. > It wasn't brilliance; it was the persuasion required to > get anyone to accept a uniform namespace for one > application sitting a top a transport system, and > the arrogance to suggest that it is the only > application worth considering. I don't have an objective definition for brilliance. All I can see objectively is success. The single namespace has successfully bound millions of previously separate applications into one. Thanks to it, I can (for example) translate the output of Google into Brazilian. Paul Prescod
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