RE: Normative constraints on the WSA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 1:36 AM
> To: Champion, Mike
> Cc: 'www-ws-arch@w3.org '
> Subject: Normative constraints on the WSA
> 
> Well, as I know I've said before, I consider the only authority on Web
> architecture to be the Web itself.  So if I can point at some 
> constraint
> which is widely followed on the Web today, and demonstrate that Web
> services don't follow it, then that seems to me to be something that
> goes against the architecture, and therefore against the charter and
> requirements of the WG.

<troll>
Uhh, what does the widespread use of cookies, POST-triggered CGI scripts
whose result is not "on the web", and application servers that maintain
server-side application state in order to make HTTP useful to application
integration by ordinary mortals say about a well-known theory of the Web
architectural principles if one were to apply those criteria? </troll>


> Are you planning to request review of the next revision of 
> the arch doc by the TAG?

No.  

I'm quite confident that this group is operating well within its chartered
constraints vis a vis the Web architetcture, the current draft of the
Webarch document, and the understandings that resulted from the discussions
between the TAG and XMLP on SOAP 1.2 and the GET binding a year ago.

Received on Sunday, 18 May 2003 20:18:31 UTC