- From: Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:25:34 -0700
- To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
I was just wondering something similar myself with respect to the SOAP protocol, which is recognized as being based on a basic one-way-message MEP (out of which other MEPs are composed, including P2P configurations). Do the authors of "Advanced Web Services" consider that to be a problem? Or are they talking about P2P at a higher level? Ugo -----Original Message----- From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:54 PM To: www-ws-arch@w3.org Subject: Advanced Web Services & client/server Hi all, I just wanted to toss out a comment about the "Advanced Web Services"[1] paper that several members have authored. It's certainly possible that I'm misinterpreting the intent - and if I am I apologize - but it seems to me as though the paper is suggesting that the Web (and/or REST) is not already peer-to-peer. If that is what it's suggesting, then I have to disagree. Specifically, the paper seems to assume that "client/server", which REST builds upon, refers to software rather than roles. i.e. that there is a piece of software which shall forever play the client role (e.g. browser), and a piece of software which shall forever play the server (e.g. Web server) role. This is not the case. REST only depends on roles; i.e. that in any given transaction, there is an initiator and a terminator. Software like that provided by KnowNow or my company, which embeds a Web server into a Web browser (or vice versa 8-), has already demonstrated that REST works well for peer-to-peer. I'm certainly in agreement that we need more data flowing from Web servers to Web clients, I just don't think we need any new architectural work to enable it. Thanks. Perhaps we can talk about this at the f2f - but I wanted to get the comment out on the public list too. [1] http://users.rcn.com/geoff2/aws1.0.pdf MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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