Re: Infoset based rewrite of SOAP Section 4

I'm an implementor -- I've done implementations of ports 80, 88, 119,
and 135 among others. :)  So I don't say this lightly:  rewriting the
SOAP spec to be based on the Infoset *would be a big loss for
implementors.*

Network protocols are not built on top of abstract "information unit"
descriptions. They are best built by from a document that describes both
bits on the wire -- the syntax -- and the meaning of those bits -- the
semantics.  An infoset approach loses the first and, for many
implementors, obscures the second in a layer of abstraction.

If there are parties that must have this information, then make it an
appendix, possibly normative.
	/r$
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Received on Saturday, 30 June 2001 12:18:00 UTC