Re: Proposed text for section 1.6.2 and 1.6.3

You could argue that CORBA + IIOP was trying to do very much what web 
services now do - provide distributed services in a vendor-neutral and 
interoperable framework.

IMO what distinguishes what we usually think of as web services from 
other distributed services is that they have a non-opaque standard 
message format and a more common standardized protocol. Which makes 
interoperability much easier to accomplish.

Whether this is an essential distinction can be debated.

--Jon

Ugo Corda wrote:
>>This possibly wouldn't even exclude something like CORBA, at least in 
>>its modern incarnation that supports IIOP.
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> But this is exactly what I think we should avoid, i.e. provide a definition of Web services such that pretty much anything satisfies the definition (making the term itself meaningless - or at least uninteresting - as a consequence).
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