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RE: Will Web Services Kill HTTP?

• To: 'bob mcwhirter' <bob@w...>, 'xml-dev' <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Will Web Services Kill HTTP?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:27:07 -0500

And that's a good thing.  Insistence on using 
http: in namespace declarations is going to make 
these choices a lot harder than they have to be.  
While it has been said that those who don't 
use resolvable URIs can live to regret it, it 
is possible to have resolvable URIs that don't 
use http.  One can have REST without HTTP.  
Consistent interfaces can be a feature of any 
protocol.  I'm not sure one can have a very 
reliable Internet service system without 
consistent identifiers.

HTTP like RDF has to thrive on its own merits and they 
are, as Fielding says, consistent interfaces. 
Even URIs are just data.  If that defines the 
system boundaries of the Web, good.  That is a 
coherent boundary.  BEEP enabled systems can 
share data with it, share languages with it, 
and so on, but it is a different system.  I don't 
know anything about BEEP?  Does it use the 
spec'd URI identification system?

Is BEEP-bound SOAP considered to be "on 
the Web" or "on the Internet" as "BEEP-enabled 
services"?  Web services don't have to kill 
HTTP.  In fact, they can't.  They can make 
it less important to those who need or want 
services based on a different architecture 
that emphasizes different features.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: bob mcwhirter [mailto:bob@w...]

Been lightly following this thread, but...

SOAP at least (not that it's the end-all-be-all of web services)
has recently been bound to BEEP.  HTTP isn't the only thing out
there...

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