- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <henrikn@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:48:46 -0700
- To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>, <www-tag@w3.org>
>It worries me that we're almost done standardizing this thing >and still debating the right way to use it. You could argue >that the same was true for XML but the issue is much deeper >with SOAP. XML had an interoperable core that everyone could >agree upon. Err, namespaces? PIs? DTDs? ... > That is not true of SOAP. For most developers >"SOAP RPC over HTTP w/section 5 encoding" *is* the >interoperable core and yet for others (let's call them the >SOAP intelligencia), it is just a historical artifact. That >suggests to me that there is something fishy going on. ...and how is this different from the discussion of how to use HTTP even though HTTP has been around for a long time? In general I strongly encourage such discussion but quite frankly, as long as we are seeing this type of "shoot at anything that moves" arguments I am not sure how this can lead to anything constructive. Sigh Henrik
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