Nothing much to post for the afternoon. I missed the first half of the sessions dealing with the hotel.

I managed to get bac in time for Sam Ruby's session "Just" Use HTTP. The crux of the session is that there are many, many specs, and that they all build on the base protocols and standards like HTTP and Unicode. HTTP itself is vague on various matters like character encodings for content, which is less a problem for people reading web pages than for applications consuming web services. HTTP also doesn't specify the character set for URIs (as an aside: I tried to use URI inside IBM for years and was frequently flamed on the various WWW* fora...it's nice to see if finally used).

I'm also sitting in on Amazon.com: E-Commerce at Interplanetary Scale which....which I'm not getting anything from.