- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:21:57 -0500 (EST)
- To: john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com (John Ibbotson)
- Cc: brian@hursley.ibm.com (Brian E Carpenter), discuss@apps.ietf.org (Discuss Apps), rpk@us.ibm.com (Richard P King)
Hi John, > The choice of HTTP in our > requirements comes about from customer feedback. In spite of the > deficiencies of HTTP, it is the de-facto infrastructure on the Web and > adding reliability to it is seen as important. I don't disagree that reliability is important, but assuming that HTTP is a transport protocol is a very easy way to do the wrong thing with it. HTTP defines an application model, which much more narrowly constrains how reliability fits in than is the case with a transport protocol. Both HTTPR and the requirements draft do not respect this model. For more on this, see; http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestArchitecturalStyle MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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