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In other words, argument from authority is no argument
at all.
--- Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org> wrote:
> 8/13/2002 10:12:32 AM, Paul Prescod
> <paul@prescod.net> wrote:
>
>
> >This is XML-DEV, not ws-arch. We're not making
> legal judgements. If Tim
> >Berners-Lee and Roy Fielding are not
> "authoritative" on the topic of web
> >architecture then I suppose the Wrights were not
> authoritative on the
> >topic of airplane design.
>
> It was the assertion "It isn't Web architecture if
> it doesn't
> use obey the constraints discussed here" that
> motivated my
> response. Anyway, "Revered pioneers" are not
> necessarily
> "authoritative" once a technology gets off the
> ground,
> so to speak. Subsequent innovators didn't worry too
> much
> about what the Wright brothers might have thought
> about the "aereonautical correctness" of their
> designs, AFAIK.
>
> Furthermore, as I understand it, far from being
> authoritative,
> the most interesting question about the Wrights
> these days is
> how the original flyer could have ever stayed aloft,
> given that
> its design was so contrary to subsequent theory and
> practice.
> One might be tempted dig for an analogy with the
> RESTifarian
> principle that cookies are evil with the actual
> practice of
> most commercial websites .... <grin>
>
> So, we can study and give honor to the pioneering
> thoughts
> expressed in the TimBL and Fielding documents
> without accepting
> that anything violating their constraints is not
> part of
> the "Web architecture". Let's talk about the web as
> it is,
> and learn from what works, whether or not the
> reality was
> what was envisioned by the pioneers.
>
> Again, my humble and personal opinion.
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