- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:05:48 -0400
- To: "Damodaran, Suresh" <Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com>
- Cc: "'Hugo Haas'" <hugo@w3.org>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
Hi Suresh, On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:10:43AM -0500, Damodaran, Suresh wrote: > As you know, URL, as defined in [1], includes other protocols apart from > http. > Though HTTP GET may be listed as a "candidate technology," as you suggest, > my preference is > not to limit ourselves to HTTP. An application may want to use ftp based > service discovery, > or smtp based. Or, a SOAP based service discovery (assuming whatever > underlying protocols). > > Just leave the door open for discovery:-) What do you mean by "discovery" in this context? I know what HTTP based discovery is; you just discover a URI. But what is FTP based service discovery, for example? As far as I know, FTP has no notion of it. (I won't even hazard a guess at what SOAP based discovery is 8-) MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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