RE: Proposed issue; Visibility of Web services

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
> Mark Baker
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:47 AM
> To: Anne Thomas Manes
> Cc: www-ws@w3.org; noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: Proposed issue; Visibility of Web services
> 
> 

> 
> Hardcoded intermediaries are valuable, so long as they're 
> hardcoded to a
> generic application; the more generic the application, the 
> more valuable
> the intermediary. 

Sigh, OK, so this has been a word-game: "hardcoded intermediaries" are what
we all think of as HTTP-aware firewalls/proxies/caches/etc., because you
think of the Web as a single "application."  You can understand how this
confuses those of us who think of the Web as infrastructure upon which
millions of applications are built!

Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2003 11:14:00 UTC