- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:40:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: Austin.D@ic.grainger.com (Austin Daniel)
- Cc: david.orchard@bea.com ('David Orchard'), www-ws-arch@w3.org
I've just had a closer look at the charter and believe I can shed some light on this issue. The wording in the charter says that it is a goal that; "The set of technologies identified must be based on XML." The context for "set of technologies identified" is listed in the previous goal; "The architecture described must be modular: a set of technologies will need to be described to address individual functionalities identified by the architecture document." Putting those together, I take them to mean that as we define the architecture, we will identify certain required technologies. Since we cannot build any technologies ourselves, all we can do is identify pre-existing ones, or identify the need for new ones to be created. Therefore, if we identify any existing technologies to be reused, they must be based on XML. While I don't think that even this is a good idea, it's a far cry from what we've been discussing here. It doesn't appear as though the charter has *anything* to say about the definition of Web services with respect to the use of XML. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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