:	"With XanaduProject, the things were documents, whereas with the original InterTwingle idea, the things are people and email messages." [from InterTwingle]

Why not everything is a thing? Including links? That is, a link is a thing?

ResourceDescriptionFramework accomplishes part of this, namely with respect to links, but is nevertheless committed to a closed class of things (or so it seems).

Connectionist? Sure!