- From: Paul Downey <paul.downey@whatfettle.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:21:28 +0100
- To: Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>
- Cc: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, public-web-http-desc@w3.org, Stefan Tilkov <stefan.tilkov@innoq.com>
On 17 Jun 2005, at 23:43, Jan Algermissen wrote: > >> It is an evolutionary process that 'factors out' application >> semantics into message formats once they are recognized as >> 'similarities'. >> >> Isn't that why there is RSS instead of doing blog machine processing >> with HTML? >> >> Now that I look at it this way, I think people should start to >> collect 'enterprise >> behavioural patterns' and express them as (suggested) message types. I'm very happy for a description to provide a list of some of the possible media-types available at the end of a URI, I'd also encourage agents to negotiate for the media they'd prefer. *but* it would be nice to be able to also describe simple existing services which serve up arbitrary XML for a purchase order or whatever and haven't registered a separate media-type, bought into RDF or shoe-horned their data into some existing unsuitable format. I guess I'm advocating being able to describe what is out there, rather than trying to impose an architectural pov. >> What about UBL? Isn't UBL doing exactly this (for some part of >> enterprise context)? My goodness, that was an unexpected blast of 'kumbya' .. -- http://blog.whatfettle.com
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