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Re: Caveats for Web-friendly service description

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:29:26 -0700
To: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
Cc: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, public-web-http-desc@w3.org
Message-id: <67BFA151-881B-4EC4-9247-FF690C85E329@textuality.com>

On Jun 1, 2005, at 7:48 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote:

> Can I suggest that a requirement for a service description format
> ought to allow for both RDF and XML as representation formats?

Why?  The cost of supporting two completely incompatible  
representation formats is high, so the corresponding benefit would  
have to be high too. -Tim
Received on Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:29:33 GMT

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