- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:23:16 -0500
- To: "Larry Masinter" <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: ietf-xml-use@imc.org, "'Scott Lawrence'" <lawrence@world.std.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Larry Masinter writes: >> The discussion makes it sound like the considerations are as much >> "code footprint", "reliability", "simplicity" as they are >> "performance". Yes. Not necessarily all required in any one use case, but certainly footprint and high speed are each required separately. Many of the small footprint devices require not only small code size, but also speeds that while not high compared to server throughput, are a challenge given small processors on small devices. Without question high throughput performance on servers is already proving a challenge from early adopter customers, and is likely to get worse. Simplicity and reliability are probably a little harder to pin down objectively, but are clearly of importance. >> It's good to be clear about the requirements, partly to >> decide if they are appropriately satisfied by the proposed solution. Absolutely. As you are probably aware, we (SOAP 1.2) do indeed have a requirements document [1]. I happen to be offline and can't doublecheck, but I believe you'll find that it calls out small devices as a target use case, with associated requirements on size and overhead. I believe it also makes clear that high performance interconnection of server applications and/or replacement for systems like EDI is a requirement. If it doesn't say or clearly imply that, it should. I can't say that I feel the requirements document 100% nails everything that it should, but the intention to clarify requirements independent of solutions is clearly there. Thanks! [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlp-reqs-20020626 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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