Motivation for W3Objects Research

• Extensibility
  • HTTP defines a fixed set of operations for all resources
    • difficult to augment interface or alter implementation
  • Incorporating non-standard resources using CGI is difficult
    • too low-level programming model cf. stub generation
    • difficult to write parameter marshaling code; easy to introduce errors
    • no architectural support for advanced resources
• Referencing Model
  • Highly visible problem of broken-links