- From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:51:09 -0700
- To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
At 11:16 PM -0400 3/13/08, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >Now, regarding the touchy term "Web services", the draft currently >says, after a WS-bashing which seems to me a bit too personal for an >IETF document: > >> [[ This section could really use a good definition of "Web Services" >> to differentiate it from REST. ]] > >There is no clear and standard definition of "Web services". People >with suits often use it to refer to SOAP only. Other (like me) use it >for every technique layered on top of HTTP and XML, including >therefore REST. > >A way to avoid any ambiguity would be not to use "Web services" at all >but the list "SOAP, XML-RPC and REST" which covers them all. > >Since these three protocols use HTTP, they share many of the same >issues regarding security and therefore it is reasonable to treat them >together. In this context, "Web Services" is talking about the WS* stack. Are others OK with replacing "Web Services" with "SOAP and XML-RPC" in this section? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium
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