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# Services on the network
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/services-on-the-network/
- Published: 2004-12-22T20:33:27.000Z
- Updated: 2004-12-22T20:33:27.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

Several [posts ago](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000505.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net), I suggested that on the network everything is a *service*.  
I have said this at a couple of meetings recently, and registered some blank expressions. A part of this is that the specialised sense of *service* (an interface to functionality on the network) is not the first thing that many people hear in a more general conversation (they may hear a more general sense, as in a dry cleaning service, a reference service, the secret service). Or when they do register the specialized sense of service, they do not think of simple web access as a service.  
But as service recombination becomes more important — with user environments, with other resources — we need to think more about what service interfaces we make available to facilitate *[stitching](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000505.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)*.