- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 03:54:48 +0100
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
- Cc: SeniorOnline technical mailing list <sol-tech@ambra.omega.it>, SELECT EU project mailing list <select@dsv.su.se>
I am involved in two EU-funded research projects, SeniorOnline (http://cmc.dsv.su.se/sol) and SELECT (http://cmc.dsv.su.se/select) which both are planning to develop distributed protocols which might in the future be candidates for standardisation. We have a problem in choosing a coding method for the distributed operations we are planning to specify. Example of operations might be in SeniorOnline: - Subscribe to a forum in another server - Replicate a message to another server - List the members of a forum in another server Coding method which we are considering are: - XML (sent via HTTP). Advantage: Powerful, general-purpose, a current fad. - multipart/formdata (RFC 2388, RFC 1867). Advantage: MIME-based, easy to produce test data since an ordinary HTML form can be used. - A variant of the DSN format (RFC 1894) - CORBA - A variant of LDAP, since some of the operations we will define will be directory-type operations In the first three cases, HTTP would probably be used for transport. I do not know enough about CORBA, but it may have its own transport protocol. Can I get advice on which of the above protocol encoding methods would be best for us to use? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme
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