HT91 paper: Outline - Draft

The aim of the paper is to present the WWW as a set of solutions to some demonstrated problems. The WWW solutions differ from most of those presented at HT90, primarily in the following points:

• The link information is stored in or with the document, not in a central repository.
• There is a blending of index search and link jumping (ref Microcosm) in that an index search result is normal hypertext.
• There is data format negociation between client and server, to allow continuous development of new representations.
• More intelligence is vested in the server, in its ability to do searches and format conversions, reducing network load, and allowing different indexing schemes to be used on different machines.

Context and Constraints of a heterogeneous environment

User requirements

Format Negociation

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