Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 14:30:00 PDT
From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
Subject: Re: [Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library]
To: "'URI'" <uri@bunyip.com>
Message-Id: <2E4A9A39@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM>
Michael Mealling wrote in <199408111424.AA11704@oit.gatech.edu>:
>How many people see WWW as the architecture with everything fitting into
>that model or the other way around with WWW as a component inside
>some larger architecture?
>
>I don't want to leave the impression that either view point is better than
>the other. Both are valid and can be argued very convincingly. I just
>wonder if some of us are working under the assumption that everyone
>else sees it the same way. I've been working under the assumption that
>the former was what everyone wanted. I may be wrong.
I see WWW as either the overall architecture or as the "glue" that joins
other architectures together (which may be saying the same thing). With WWW
and HTML you achieve a uniform UI over many different "schemes" (http,
gopher, ftp, wais, etc.). WWW and HTML provide the capability for a
universal Internet client -- something we will need at Thomson, as our
Internet user community will be mainly engineers who want to do their jobs
(design TVs) rather than fiddle with the differing command interfaces for
each Internet protocol.
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Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@tcemail.indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
"Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate
the bandwidth of FTP by mail."