Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition Editor's Draft 14 October 2004
Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition Editor's Draft 14 October 2004 This version: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2004/webarch-20041014/ Latest editor's draft: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/webarch/ Previous version: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2004/webarch-20040928/ Latest TR version: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ Editors: Ian Jacobs, W3C Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Authors: See acknowledgments (§8, pg. 42). Copyright © 2002-2004 W3C ® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. Your interactions with this site are in accordance with our public and Member privacy statements. Abstract The World Wide Web is an information space of interrelated resources. This information space is the basis of, and is shared by, a number of information systems. In each of these systems, people and software retrieve, create, display, analyze, relate, and reason about resources. The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web. They are identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space. We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support. Status of this document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication.
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