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| | Web Architecture from 50,000 feet |
 | | I have resisted the urge, and requests, to try to write an architecture for a long time: This was from a feeling that a dead and therefore less valuable document must any attempt to select which, of all the living ideas, seem most stable, logically connected and essential. |
 | | When the URI architecture is defined, and when one has the use of at least one dereferencable protocol, then all one needs for an interoperable global hypertext system is at least one common format for the content of a resource, or Web object. |
 | | However, architecturally this is an unnecessary central point of control, and there is no reason why the Web itself should not be used as a repository for new types. |
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