- My general aim is to help the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) transform the present "web of documents" into a "web of data about everything for everyone". To this end I bring experience from over ten years working with the British Army on the storage and distribution of information within a battlespace. During this work we found a way to achieve highly resilient, asynchronous distribution based on the individual needs of each user within a flexible network.
- I believe that principles evolved to secure the integrity of information in this difficult environment hold the key to the handling of dynamic information on the World Wide Web. To this end, and with encouragement from my friends within the British Army, I am working to apply these principles to a draft standard for a form of “Publish and Subscribe” service that is simple enough for use by anyone with the confidence to build their own website.
- In pursuing this aim it is my policy to work in accordance with:
- The British Computer Society “Code of Ethics”.
- The spirit and constitution of the World Wide Consortium.
- The quality standards of ISO 9001-2000.
- My activities are not constrained by affiliation with any other organisation and it is my intention to work openly in collaboration with interested people from the industry, user and academic fields.
- The views expressed on this site are all my own but they build on the results of sustained collaboration with many people over many years. The background work involved was inspired and funded by the British Army in pursuit of their goal of fully interoperable systems. I would like to acknowledge my debt to this organization and to the many friends I made while working there. In particular I would like everyone to know that the ideas expressed on this site owe much to the passion, commitment and creative energy of my friends: Ken Allen, Keith Gordon, Peter Lawson, Peter Nell, Martin Richley, Steve Timbers and Mark Thurlow.
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