Re: FYI: APEX

At 10:45 AM 3/1/2001 -0500, marwan sabbouh wrote:
>also very similar to Soap With Attachments

The referenced protocol draft uses the CID scheme
that was one option used in Soap With Attachments.  This
scheme is very "mail-like", being based on nominally
global-unique message ids.  Personally I think that
the more effective packaging method will turn out to
be the relative URI approach based on Content-location.
This scheme is web-like.  It decouples content from
transport.  This is an important issue for content
designers, if not for transport designers.

John.

>Mark Nottingham wrote:
> >
> > These drafts concern APEX, an extensible messaging protocol which
> > uses BEEP as a substrate, whose first application is presence
> > protocols (e.g., ICQ, etc.)
> >
> > APEX has some similarities to SOAP/XML Protocol, and is authored by
> > Marshall Rose, who wrote BEEP.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Mark Nottingham, Research Scientist
> > Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA)
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-mrose-apex-core-02.txt
> > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 06:44:44 -0500
> > From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org
> > To: IETF-Announce: ;
> >
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories.
> >
> >         Title           : The Application Exchange Core
> >         Author(s)       : M. Rose, G. Klyne, D. Crocker
> >         Filename        : draft-mrose-apex-core-02.txt
> >         Pages           : 52
> >         Date            : 20-Feb-01
> >
> > This memo describes APEX, an extensible, asynchronous message
> > relaying service for application layer programs.
> >
> > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mrose-apex-core-02.txt
> >
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> >
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