Original Intent

From Boing Boing:

TBL on links and the law. Tim Berners-Lee anticipated NPR's absurd link policy in 1997, in this paper on Links and the Law:

The intention in the design of the web was that normal links should simply be references, with no implied meaning.

A normal hypertext link does NOT necessarily imply that

* One document endorses the other; or that

* One document is created by the same person as the other, or that

* One document is to be considered part of another.

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(Thanks, Patrick!)

I'd actually thought about looking to see if there was something that TBL wrote about this.

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