- From: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:41:29 +0100
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, janssen@parc.xerox.com, discuss@apps.ietf.org
Mark Baker wrote: > > > if the design of the web is to coerce everything into one protocol, > > it's fundamentally broken. perhaps that was the intent, but > > I'm happy that things didn't work out that way. > > Not "everythng", just "lots of things". > > Do you see a problem with my example? I can't see any basic reason why a thermostat should be accessed as if it was a hypertext document. I would expect building-services control messages to get layered directly over a transport protocol in due course. I certainly want thermostats to be accessed by a highly reliable mechanism that survives disconnected operation, which is where this thread started. Brian
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