- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:22:06 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: dorchard@bea.com, fielding@apache.org, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Roy: there is indeed a moderately voluminous thread on this at [1], which was originally about the general nature of SOAP messages (may or may not be of interest to you....roughly it's whatever one node sends to another per the SOAP architecture. My view is that it includes at minimum an XML "Envelope" but frequently other information such as destination URIs, etc.) Where we started to get into REST issues is where David Orchard said at [2]: "Maybe a good word for the bag of bits that some are calling a message would be better served being called a representation?" Which led to the ongoing discussion of whether >all< such messages are best described with the word "representation". I think that's the fundamental question on which Mark has asked for your reactions. If you're commenting, as Mark requested, I'd specifically be curious for your thoughs on my contribution at [3]. (BTW: I also wrote some followup at [4, 5] but those latter posts are somewhat less succinct. That said, if you do read the post at [4] please note the clarification at [5].) Thank you! [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2003Feb/0005.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2003Feb/0023.html [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2003Feb/0023.html [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2003Feb/0084.html [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2003Feb/0092.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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