WWW Architecture

Source materials:

• Consortium Activity List
• TimBL's original DesignIssues
• Terms: integrating old Glossary and Terms
• web arch/theory, larch
• issues in development of distributed hypermedia
• interface points in the web

Web Architecture from the Ground Up

• Essentials
  • URLs: naming
  • HTTP: NIR protocols
  • HTML: data formats
  • clients: immersive hypermedia experience
  • servers: PIM to MIS to global KB. disintermediaries. Brian's dream server
• Hypertext
  • Ted Nelson and Xanadu: links and anchors
  • Engelbart: windows, mouse
  • Describing and Linking Web Resources
• Networked Information Retrieval
  • GET: WAIS, verity, fulcrum, z39.50, gopher
  • PUT/POST: FTP, NNTP
  • HTTP Caching Rules and Heuristics Proxy caching, stale copies, format negotiation
  • Web/Mail/Usenet Integration: HyperMail Done Right, Notification
• Document formats and Knowledge Representation
  • character sets

    Character Set Considered Harmful

    Character sets, encodings, octets, integers...

  • SGML, TeX, RTF, andrew
    • critique of markup languages
    • MIME/WWW/SGML thread
    • WWW Architecture: Data Formats in progress: Jan 1996. A formal architecture begins to develop (Jan 1996) in the form of Larch traits:
      • Octet
      • Character
  • AI, slots/frames, deduction, semantic network. Describing and Linking Web Resources
  • GEB: symbols, names, GET=eval
  • declarative vs. turing-complete. Toward a Formalism for Communication On the Web
  • programs as knowledge: OOP
  • authenticity, confidentiality, belief, and trust