Re: discovery vs information

And then Tim Bray proposes a straw man..

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0297.html

Which calls for a new HTTP header.

Which might solve the problem, in about a thousand years or so.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Ayers" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: [syndication] discovery vs information


> Re. fixed filenames, this might just be relevant :
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> [[
> The architecture of the web is that the space of identifiers
> on an http web site is owned by the owner of the domain name.
> The owner, "publisher",  is free to allocate identifiers
> and define how they are served.
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> Any variation from this breaks the web.  The problem
> is that there are some conventions for the identifies on websites,
> that
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>     /robots.txt  is a file controlling robot access
>     /w3c/p3p is where you put a privacy policy
>     /favico   is an icon representative of the web site
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> and who knows what others.  There is of course no
> list available of the assumptions different groups and manufacturers
> have used.
> ...
> ]]
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> Tim Berners-Lee to Technical Architecture Group
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0093.html
>
> captured on TAG issue list:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist.html#siteData-36
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