Nó là sự thật rằng hệ thống như vậy để có hiệu quả, những người tham gia trong đó cần phải đồng ý về một tập hợp các tiêu chuẩn thông thường hoặc các quy định để tạo điều kiện thuận lợi cho việc giao tiếp và hợp tác. Trong Web, | Extending the Concept 321 It is true that for such a system to be effective the people participating in it need to agree about a set of common standards or rules to facilitate communication and cooperation. In the Web these common rules are compliance to the core technologies such as URI HTTP and TCP IP and basic rules of conduct. The latter suggest policy restrictions on exploits and intrusion attempts or ways to combat the spread of computer viruses and worms. However well-chosen rules increase rather than decrease freedom. In actual fact the bottom-line hard requirement is simply that whatever you implement must be gracefully compliant with existing infrastructure. Your overlaid protocols and applications can be as strange as you want as long as they do not break the transport or interfere with the expected capabilities of others. Bit Infrastructure compliance is a self-correcting requirement and environment There is no need for a tyranny of regulation and restriction as long as functionality is in everyone s self-interests. It is only against purely destructive efforts that blocking measures are required. Become too distant from the consensus way of working and you will likely lose connectivity or common functionality. Become too intrusive and you bring down the ire of the community who might first flame you then filter you out of it. Become too strange and obscure in your innovation and nobody will adopt it - you may then continue to play in splendid isolation. The usual balance is mildly chaotic diversity constantly evolving in various directions. It is a state we often see in nature. Consider ants. If ants would always follow the paths laid down by their fellow ants and never diverge to create paths of their own then the colony would starve as soon as food sources on the existing paths became exhausted. So they have evolved to meander slightly leaving the strongest scent trail with occasional individuals striking out boldly where no ant has gone .
