- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:02:32 -0700
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- CC: www-ws-arch@w3.org, xml-dist-app@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
David Orchard wrote: > >... > > My belief is that the web has been based upon a shared information space, > primarily through use of GET/POST methods. However, as we move towards more > machine to machine oriented communications, with arbitrary payloads of XML, > and it's focus on update/service oriented architectures, the need for a > public contract for safe actions is dramatically reduced. ... I disagree with your statement of the issue. It isn't about a public contract for safe operations, it is about addressability. Given: 1 every bit of information on the Web should have a URI address 2 given an address, a client must be able to derference it to get a representation of the information item. This implies to me that every "web protocol" that exposes information needs a) an addressing mechanism and b) a clear statement of how to dereference addresses to retrieve information. If you invented a soap:// addressing mechanism, then the need for SOAP-on-GET would be greatly reduced. But until SOAP has a) and b), I don't see how it can be any more a "Web protocol" than DHCP or POP is. Paul Prescod
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