- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:24:41 -0500
- To: Geoff Arnold <Geoff.Arnold@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-ws@w3.org
Good stuff Geoff, and I agree with your conclusion here about inventing a new term, as reasonable and as well thought out as David's suggestion is. I would just add though, that I believe the lineage goes back much further. The work on NCP circa 1970, for example, has numerous references to the issues of state management, including this one; After the server accepts the connection(s), it (they) goes immediately to a "connected state", and the appropriate ALL command(s) must be sent. [...] The main advantage to this approach is that it minimizes the dialog between user and server. -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc197.txt , July 1971 I wouldn't be surprised if it went back much further than that, but 1970 is about as far back as my (limited) knowledge extends (primarily because the bulk of my exposure to the history of large scale distributed computing came from reading RFCs! 8-). On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:19:55AM -0500, Geoff Arnold wrote: > Perhaps a little history is in order here. [snip] Mark.
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