From my daily Oasis News Feed:
Addressing a selection of Last Call issues, the
W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a updated
Working Draft of the Architecture of the World Wide Web, First
Edition. The document is written for Web developers, implementers,
content authors and publishers.
It describes the properties that are desired of
the Web and the design choices that have been made to achieve them.
Web architecture includes the definition of the information space
in terms of identification and representation of its contents, and
of the protocols that support the interaction of agents in an
information system making use of the space.
Web architecture is influenced by social
requirements and software engineering principles. These lead to
design choices and constraints on the behavior of systems that use
the Web in order to achieve desired properties of the shared
information space: efficiency, scalability, and the potential for
indefinite growth across languages, cultures, and media. Good
practice by agents in the system is also important to the success
of the system.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-webarch-20040705/
See also the TAG Home Page:
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/