# Re: WWW architecture question

Gavin Bell (gavin@jupiter.qub.ac.uk)
Fri, 12 Aug 94 10:26:03 PDT

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    Date: Fri, 12 Aug 94 10:26:03 PDT

    Message-Id: <9408121726.AA17826@jupiter.qub.ac.uk>

    To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, uri@bunyip.com

    From: gavin@jupiter.qub.ac.uk (Gavin Bell)

    Subject: Re: WWW architecture question

At 10:54 pm 11/8/94 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
>> How many people see WWW as the architecture with everything fitting
>> into that model or the other way around with WWW as a component inside
>> some larger architecture?
>
>Anything at all is always "a component inside some larger..." thing.
>
>Clearly, we're evolving to an information architecture that is larger
>in scope than what is currently implemented by current clients and
>servers on the Internet. You may choose to call that larger thing
>'WWW' or something else, depending on your perspective. Insofar as it
>affects the charter of this working group, the requirements for URNs
>and URLs discussed the requirements for naming and location of
>resources on (via) the Internet generally; I presume that this will be
>the case with URCs as well.

Hello
I have lurking in this list for a while, just reading the torrent as it
came in, but I'd like to make a comment on this. I see the web as a very
good integrative technology, but www != net. I agree with the point that
the ur* will provide an "api". Whatever the format we decide upon for the
UR* it needs to be highly flexible. Currently WWW is one of the best
protocols we have, but in 5-10 years it may well be old and tired. There
are a lot of technologies emerging now or in the near future: www-vrml,
moo, mbone, vr etc.

All of these need to be emcompassed by what naming scheme we choose now as
it will be here for a long time to come. One thing I see as missing is the
ability to classify the content of the documents or files we are dealing
with. Keyword indexing and wais style full content indexing is part of the
solution, but ususally a keywrod search will return 25-40% of the material
available in any "library". a standard classification system, maybe based
on the aliweb model might go slightly further.

Gavin
<maybe stating the obvious>

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