RE: T is for Transfer

> > From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
> > The firewall advantage is silly;
> > the first thing the firewall vendors will do once SOAP is finalized
is 
> > distribute the "SOAP stops here" upgrade.
> 
> No, they won't.  They won't dare, not if they want to stay in 
> the good grace of their customers who want to do SOAP the way 
> they want it.

I'm not sure they really need do anything, once SOAP becomes a MIME type
of its own. It's already filterable at that point.

> It isn't up to the firewall vendors anyway.
> It's up to the network/sys admins, who in their good sense 
> much prefer pinholes to Swiss-cheese when it comes to 
> managing firewalls.

It certainly is up to whoever sets the firewall policy, you're right.

-- Scott