- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:23:36 -0400
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
- Cc: tbray@textuality.com, connolly@w3.org, paul@prescod.net, dorchard@bea.com, mnot@mnot.net
As many of you distApp readers may be aware, there has been a spirited discussion on the W3C TAG (Technical Architecture Group) mailing list [1] regarding the role of REST [2] on the Web. A particular point of concern has been whether SOAP is consistent with REST. Several people have made proposals, and I posted one at [3] this morning. For some reason, it seems to be stuck in the mail reflector -- it's in the archives but as of a few minutes ago nobody had received it. Since not everyone on distApp reads www-tag, I thought I'd point out my proposal. Indeed, were it not for the involvement of the Tag, this would be a subject for discussion on distApp. As it is, I suggest discussion of my proposal (and the others) on the Tag list, but note some of the guidelines for proper use of that list...it's not a free-for-all. Discussion should be to the point, and focussed on helping the tag to figure out how SOAP fits with REST. If this gets into a major protocols design discussion, we'll probably have to figure out how to move it to distApp. Thanks. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/ [2] http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Apr/0271.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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