I wouldn't read that much into what TimBL is saying about the "principle of least power". It seems more like a post facto realization, and particularly in light

I wouldn't read that much into what TimBL is saying about the "principle of least power". It seems more like a post facto realization, and particularly in light of expectations for a transition into a Semantic Web. The 1990 WWW proposal [1] reveals the web to have been more-or-less the bare minimum glue to unify CERN's document troves, and to do so in a highly expedient timeframe. A far cry from TimBL's earlier ENQUIRE, and no in-depth design principles per se. [1] http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html