- From: Jim Webber <Jim.Webber@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 05:07:10 -0000
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
Mark: > I understand. My point remains that all Internet scale > systems I've studied (including the ones I mentioned; email, > Web, instant > messaging) get to be Internet scale by defining abstractions > at the level I'm talking about. Can you name one that > doesn't? Do you think that's a coincidence? I don't. > Agreement on application abstractions is what coordination > languages are all about, and they go by that name for a good > reason 8-). I don't necessarily think that Web Services will be used for Internet scale systems, at least not at the same Internet scale that the human web is at. However I do not believe that laying down a foundation that consists of messages (which are sent and received) is in any way detrimental to building such systems, after all I can build "your architecture" using those primatives, no? Jim
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