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Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services

• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services
• From: Mark Baker <distobj@a...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:25:46 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E18iGOW-0001ga-00@c...>; from alaric@a... on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:03:09PM +0000
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:03:09PM +0000, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> No, they don't, despite both being protocols used to fetch stuff. Neither do 
> HTTP, LDAP, ODBC, IMAP, POP3, finger, ftp, tftp, fsp, etc. interoperate; yet 
> all of them are based around the concept of fetching something. They were all 
> designed to be too specific, trying to limit their horizons in the hope of 
> spending less effort on design, but that cost was paid later in the effort of 
> expanding the design...

Not that I agree, but your point is what?  That we need a generic "fetch
stuff" layer 6 protocol?

The problem with that - if that is indeed what you mean - is that
layer 6 isn't where you define "fetch stuff"; that's for layer 7.

So what's needed is not a common layer 6 protocol on which new "fetch
stuff" protocols can be constructed, but a generic layer 7 protocol that
can provide a network interface to those protocols.

MB
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