RE: Proposed text for section 1.6.2 and 1.6.3

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damodaran, Suresh [mailto:Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:41 AM
> To: 'Mike Champion'; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Cc: w3c-wsa-editors@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Proposed text for section 1.6.2 and 1.6.3
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> 1. Historically, REST style *is* more or less the 
> architectural style of the WWW 
> (whether we like it or not!). Not saying it as such would be rewriting
> history.

So what are you suggesting ... to eliminate the distinction betweeen
"the Web" and "REST".  I could live with that, I think, but I don't
feel comfortable implying that all the non-RESTful stuff
(CGI scripts, cookies, and statefulness maintained by 
application servers) is not "the Web."  <grin>

I think I know where you're going -- maybe I cut TOO sharp a 
distinction between the Web and the RESTful subset of the
Web -- but would appreciate specific wording suggestions from
Suresh or anyone who agrees with him.

> 2. WSA must be semantic web ready (at least not inhibit)

Hmm, good point ... we should make some reference to that.  Actually, the
previous draft had a bit on "the description of an SOA is the description of
the messages" that I meant to keep and apprently didn't.  Saying something
about the potential for Semantic Web technologies to describe the semantics
as well as syntax of messages might be useful.