On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 12:13 +0100, Danny Ayers wrote:
> On 14/11/06, Kendall Clark <
kendall@...> wrote:
>
> > I consistently fail to understand the import of that kind of claim,
> > as it seems to suggest that the public Semantic Web is the most
> > important thing.
>
> The (Semantic) Web is a public entity.
Oh? I don't think so. As I said to the XML 2005 crowd
and to several other audiences where I have used these
slides since then...
[[
Scaling
* yes, scalability to 10^9 nodes and up is important
* but so is scalability down to families and scout troops
]]
-- slide "Getting into the Web: downhill steps"
http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/mash/slides#(5)
See also
The Fractal nature of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Date: 1998
Status: personal view only. Editing status: first draft.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fractal> It seems a straightforward
> distinction, by definition things that aren't connected to it aren't
> part of the Web.
Intranets are often connected to the Web with links that go one
way but not the other.
--
Dan Connolly, W3C
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
