- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:16:06 -0500
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
The proposed requirement states: "The XML Protocol will guarantee that RPC messages that encode parameters and results using the default encoding for the base set of data types will be valid for any conformant binding of the RPC conventions. " We should specify what goes on the wire, and should ensure that XP is suitable for certain purposes. I don't see how the above proposed req't can be meaningfully specified and tested. First of all, I think the term binding here is used to mean binding to programing langs. and object systems, which is an inconsistent use of the term wrt the rest of the specification. More fundamentally, I think the requirement specifies characteristics of particular bindings, which are beyond the scope of the spec. No matter how good XP is, I can always build a faulty language binding for it. I think we can and should just drop this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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