- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 17 Dec 2001 16:37:35 -0600
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
[in hopes of being able to find these in the future... please, (a) one issue per message, unless they're technically related, and (b) put some technical keywords in the subject] On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 16:22, Mark Baker wrote: [...] > Issue; HTTP is not well understood > > I assert that the entire Web Services phenomena exists because of a > misunderstanding about what the HTTP protocol is about (and a whole > lot of marketing $$$ 8-). IMO, it is critical that the TAG document the > generality of its application semantics. While it is true that there > are Web-friendly uses of SOAP (which I remain the most outspoken > proponent of in the XML Protocol working group), I've yet to see an > independant developer using it in this way. The TAG could save a lot of > people a lot of time and frustration by explaining the role and > relevance of HTTP to the Web. > > In response to a lot of Web Services propaganda that's been floating > around the industry for the past while, I took at stab at doing this by > writing up an Internet Draft called "An Abstract Model for HTTP Resource > State"[2], which takes the view of HTTP as a state manipulation > language. > > [2] http://www.markbaker.ca/2001/09/draft-baker-http-resource-state-model > > MB -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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