# Consensus alert! Consensus alert! :-)

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Mon, 7 Mar 1994 11:20:05 -0500

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    From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 11:20:05 -0500

    In-Reply-To: John Curran's message as of Mar  5, 22:23

    To: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>,

            "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>

    Subject: Consensus alert! Consensus alert!  :-)

It may, just may, be that we're working towards consensus
on this?

[ John wrote: ]
. . .
> ] We really need to return to first principles.
> ]
> ] METHOD://LOCATION/INSTRUCITONS_FOR_RETRIEVAL
> ]
> ] If we do not, all retrieval engines will need to understand the
> ] differences between the various ways in which systems store information.
> ]
> ] And this would break the one untransgressable law: Thou shalt scale.
>
> I am in strong agreement with Rob, Mark, et. al. with respect to requiring
> a clear algorithmic mapping from each URL to the intructions for retrieval,
> even if it results in a more complicated encoding.

Dare I say "me, too"?? I don't think it gets any simpler
than this. We need clear instructions for all supported
cases and that means clear algorithmic steps are required
in all cases. If it means we have something that's more
script-like than subroutine call-like, that's fine. In
fact, I personally think it would be a win.

- peterd

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