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Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Peter Hunsberger wrote: > > >>So, first you need to decide what the real >>fundamentals of your information space are: >>HTTP, URIs, HTML, XML, etc. > > > My interest is at a higher level. I would like to abstract away from > specific "formats", and understand the general mechanisms/patterns that > have emerged on the Web for formulating and delivering "information". > Roger-- I think you'll find that most people who think about the Web at this level (including Tim Berners-Lee) think that URIs are fundamental, whatever they may think about the other stuff. If you want to abstract away from URIs as a specific format, you can say that a common way of identifying and referring to specific things is necessary if you're going to create a "world wide web". Without a generally-used way of linkiing information together, it's hard to create a "web". Instead, you tend to get little islands of information. Sure, you could create an alternative way of doing that, but it would tend to break what's already there. --Frank
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