[6893] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP Futures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Mogensen)
Thu Dec 1 08:11:17 1994
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:46:50 +0100
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From: Christian Mogensen <mogens@CS.Stanford.EDU>
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Fisher@tce.com writes:
>Well said. As long as the Web community does not allow governmental bodies
>(or groups in league with governmental bodies) to mandate the use of
>browsers that force their SOAP advice on users, the information on the Web
>will remain unfettered. Don't laugh too hard about the possibility of
>government mandates -- the U.S. political correctness movement would
>undoubtably love a government mandate forcing people to use browsers that
>permit only politically correct material to be viewed.
Remember, it's a WORLD wide web. Norway has different standards of
prurience than the U.S, and so on...
On the gripping hand: :-]
>On the third hand (as a Motie would say :)), if the Web software gets so
>complex that it cannot be written except by large corporations, a danger
>(hopefully remote) exists of the corporation(s) installing mandatory SOAP
>advice use to forestall legal problems ("my 12-year old daughter looked at
>http://www.playboy.com and is mentally scarred for life!").
Unlike the ISO (purveyor of the widely used X.400, X.500 and ISO/OSI models)
the IETF (AFAIK - feel free to shoot this down) has yet to come up with
an utterly unimplementable standard. In this regard, the net is quite
fortunate - methinks the prototype requirement has something to do with it.
Christian "Linux - the choice of a GNU Generation"
