I could never really thought understand what it was going to do in specific terms, going from a "Programs could exchange data across the Semantic Web without having to be explicitly engineered to talk to each other" to some specific cases that seemed useful.
Spolsky had a great blog about this ki d of thing. CS people looking at napster, overemphasizing the peer-to-peer aspects and endeavouring to generalized it. Generalising is what science does, so the drive was there.
Generalising a solution is... It can lead you down path to solutuon-seeking problem. The web is also hard. Lots of chicken-egg problems to solve.
When TBL released www he had a browser, server and web pages that you could use right now. The "standards" existed for a non abstract reason.
On criticisms of W3C... idk. The have an almost impossible job. The world's biggest companies control browsers. Standards are very hard to change. Very hard network effect problems, people problems. Enourmous economic, political & ideological interests are impacted by their decisions.
You could say that they not have been involved with the project until it was much more mature and they could decide whether or not to include it. That said, if they were those sorts of people I stead of academic... I'm not sure if that's better.
I could never really thought understand what it was going to do in specific terms, going from a "Programs could exchange data across the Semantic Web without having to be explicitly engineered to talk to each other" to some specific cases that seemed useful.
Spolsky had a great blog about this ki d of thing. CS people looking at napster, overemphasizing the peer-to-peer aspects and endeavouring to generalized it. Generalising is what science does, so the drive was there.
Generalising a solution is... It can lead you down path to solutuon-seeking problem. The web is also hard. Lots of chicken-egg problems to solve.
When TBL released www he had a browser, server and web pages that you could use right now. The "standards" existed for a non abstract reason.
On criticisms of W3C... idk. The have an almost impossible job. The world's biggest companies control browsers. Standards are very hard to change. Very hard network effect problems, people problems. Enourmous economic, political & ideological interests are impacted by their decisions.
You could say that they not have been involved with the project until it was much more mature and they could decide whether or not to include it. That said, if they were those sorts of people I stead of academic... I'm not sure if that's better.
So.e things just don't work out.