Michael Smethurst did a fascinating post about how the BBC make websites at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/01/how_we_make_websites.shtml covering concepts such as persistent URIs, REST, Domain Driven Design and Linked Open Data
A session from Michael, or something covering these concepts and how they can be applied in practical ways would be fantastics
I was going to suggest something along the lines of a tutorial on the RESTful use of HTTP, but I think this suggestion would fit the bill quite nicely.
While I think this would be interesting, my worry would be that their reach is so beyond ours it would ultimately be depressing. It would be useful if someone from the BBC could identify their best practices that it would be possible to migrate to our kind of tin-pot rickety set ups.
I think the underlying aspects of this are the key - it doesn't have to be the BBC, but they have some good stuff to say, and very practical demonstration of why you should use some of the concepts I mentioned in the original suggestion. I also hope that some of IWMW can be aspirational!
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