Comments from SWBP&D WG

The best practices group is also drafting a formal WG response to Dan's 
earlier query, but in the meantime a member has posted a relevant 
response:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004Oct/0006.html

A useful part for our protocol discussion is:

"Two things are mentioned early. 1) A query language 2) a data access 
protocol. The DAP seems to be necessary for clients to talk to servers. 
Generally, I would keep the two unbound so that they can change 
independently as needed. There is not much discussion of the DAP, 
specifically whether it is a transport/wire protocol (like HTTP, IIOP, 
etc.) or some higher level protocol. This distinction is key. I would 
strongly recommened not to create a new wire-protocol like IIOP which 
could have a similar fate. HTTP is a best practice, in my opinion and 
should be considered as a transport protocol. Ideally, the transport 
would be extracted from a uri scheme (e.g. http://, tcp://, udp://, )."

For what it's worth, I agree that we need a HTTP based transport, 
though have no comments on what messaging format we choose (well, at 
present).

Cheers,
Tom
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