On 6/17/13 8:17 AM, Luca Matteis wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:The Web isn't about being draconian or tightly coupled to anything.But the Web *IS* tightly coupled to HTTP! Why can't Linked Data then be tightly coupled to RDF?
The Web isn't tightly coupled to HTTP. HTTP is an effective route to a global Web.The magic is in the URI, the ability to provide abstraction that enables the loose coupling of data access protocols and data representation formats.
FWIW -- when we started releasing Linked Data (at the start of this journey) we did so using resolvable URIs for a variety of schemes, not just HTTP. Even today, in the context of Web-scale verifiable identity, we produce Linked Data solutions that don't mandate HTTP scheme URIs while actually exploiting the kind of entity relationship fidelity that RDF delivers.
The beauty of the World Wide Web is that it is actually loosely coupled at its architectural core. HTTP is a productive short-cut to the Web due its increasing ubiquity.
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