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Kendall,
I am curious why you did not say anything about protocol-based interoperability in your article. Reading the AWWW document over one begins to realize why the WWW is spinning out of control regarding complexity management based upon its simplistic architectural representation. This representation was adequate for the first phase of the Web, but is proving much more difficult when applied to Web services and beyond where interoperability issues are a primary concern in heterogeneous computing.
For example, calling all things resources is the first non-scalable definition. The architecture does not distinguish between data, metadata, and metamodel concepts. Yes, RDF makes an attempt at the meta level, but itself is collapsing on its own complexity and is years away from widespread utilization and practice by the general business user. This is just one of many fundamental problems with the WWW architecture and are not effectively addressed by this document or other W3C work products.
Sandy Klausner
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