RE: S600: Comments on the Web Services Architecture Usage Scenari o s document (was Re: New draft of the Web Services Architecture Usage S cen arios document)

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:06:40PM -0500, Damodaran, Suresh wrote:
> Yes, I agree. This truly is the middle ground:-)
> The key is separating the semantics from the protocol.
> Lets hope we do it right.

I'd say that the key is defining *both* the semantics and the protocol.
Some Internet-scale systems separate the two, such as NFS and DNS (both
are built on an RPC layer).  But most don't; they are built with a
single specification, an application protocol.

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