ISSUE-25
deepLinking-25
What to say in defense of principle that deep linking isnot an illegal act?
- State:
- RAISED
- Product:
- Raised by:
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Opened on:
- 2002-07-05
- Description:
Strawman from Tim Bray: The architecture of the World Wide Web does not support the notion of a "home page" or a "gateway page", and any effort in law to pretend otherwise is therefore bad policy. The publication of a Uniform Resource Identifier is, in the architecture of the Web, a statement that a resource is available for retrieval. The technical protocols which are used for Web interaction provide a variety of means for site operators to control access, including password protection and the requirement that users take a particular route to a page. It would be appropriate to bring the law to bear against those who violate these protocols. It is not appropriate to use it in the case where information consumers are using the Web according to its published rules of operation.
- Related Actions Items:
- ACTION-322 on Dan Connolly to Ask W3C management for writing resources re hyperlinking - due 2010-01-31, open
- Related emails:
- Draft minutes for TAG telecon of 2009-10-22 (from jar@creativecommons.org on 2009-10-24)
- Minutes of 3 November 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-11-15)
- Minutes of 15-17 November 2003 TAG face-to-face meeting in Shin-Yokohama, Japan (from on 2003-11-15)
- (from on 2003-11-03)
- Minutes of 6-8 October 2003 TAG face-to-face meeting in Bristol (from on 2003-10-08)
- Minutes of 15 September 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-09-15)
- Minutes of 15 September 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-09-15)
- Minutes of 17 Feb 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-02-17)
- Minutes of 6-7 Feb 2003 TAG ftf meeting (from on 2003-02-07)
- Minutes of 6-7 Feb 2003 TAG ftf meeting (from on 2003-02-07)
- [Minutes] 09 Sep 2002 TAG teleconf (from Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> on 2002-09-09)
- Minutes of 30 August 2002 TAG teleconference (from on 2002-08-30)
- Minutes of 22 July 2002 TAG teleconference (from on 2002-07-22)
- Potential wild-card issue outside W3C: legality of deep linking (from Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> on 2002-07-05)
Related notes:
2009-11-12 20:34:14: I'm not sure the chair has formally accepted a proposal to re-open this issue on the basis of new information, but actions on closed issues don't show up in the top part of the agenda planning page, so I'm moving this to "RAISED". [Dan Connolly]
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