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RE: tolerating anarchy (was Re: Personal reply)
- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>,"David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>, XML DEV <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:55:34 -0500
At 09:53 AM 3/13/01 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>The web succeeded based on a standard set of
>generic codes passed among communicating parties
>via a standard protocol all implemented over
>a code library made freely available from
>the originators of that code.
>
>There isn't a hint of anarchy in that.
Uh, Len - 404 Not Found. No central storage. Tolerance for a wide variety
of media types, plus a frequently and easily extended transfer
protocol. (Lots of added headings.)
Plenty of anarchy, if you care to acknowledge it. It's still there, as
well. Probably more now than before.
Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
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