Goals -- Conditions

Goals of W3

The W3 project's goal is to provide the High Energy Physics (HEP) community with access to information through its name only. There shall no longer be any need to know the location, access methods, site address or machine particulars of the informationas host.

The information is presented to the user as a web of interlinked documents .

Acces to information through W3 is:

via a hypertext model,
network based, world wide,
information format independent,
highly platform/operating system independent,
scalable from local notes to distributed data bases,

Webs can be independent, subsets or supersets of each other. They can be local, regional or worldwide. The documents available on a web may reside on any computer supported by that web.