- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:02:18 -0700
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Jacek, you've made some excellent points. In my recent re-reading of O'Reilly's "Core Internet Protocols" book, I've also reaffirmed my sense that SOAP is really a level 6 (presentation) protocol. Therefore it should ride on top of TCP and application protocols should ride on top of it. I have no confidence that this will happen, however, because moving SOAP to TCP will arguably slow deployment. After all, more programmers know how to work with CGI/servlets/ASP than with raw sockets. I expect that less "enlightened" SOAP vendors will see the marketing costs as outweighing the technical advantages that accrue from using Internet protocols as they were meant to be used. Paul Prescod
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