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The Rising Sun: How XML Binary Restored the Fortunes of Innovators

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• Subject: The Rising Sun: How XML Binary Restored the Fortunes of Innovators
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:18:11 -0500

An awful lot of pundits seem to be lining up against an XML Binary. 
In the other camp, one finds companies such as Sun and Expway as 
well as standards keiretsu such as the W3DC.  While XML-Dev readers 
are playing with Pythonesque lampoons, Layman and Box publish 
a lampoon designed to poke fun at those innovating on the idea 
of a faster XML.  Berners-Lee is  suggesting that perhaps a 
simpler XML is the answer.  The TAG is demanding benchmarks and 
test cases, something that hasn't been demanded of disruptive 
technologies such as HTML, RSS, CSS, XML, or even SOAP for which 
one could have demanded tests.

XML Binary is just an encoding, right?  It is faster, right?  It 
can be a lossless encoding, right?

This issue seems to bring out real angst among the W3C, industry stalwarts 
and some not insignificant players.   Demands for technology by customers 
are usually met with product.  In this case, the product will be available 
from Sun, Expway, etc., and for applications such as X3D, Sensor Nets, 
cellphones, etc.

I wonder:  is the XML Binary a disruptive technology that will change 
the current landscape of technology companies?  Is this a case where 
the current winners of the market play wait and see only to be late to 
market with something important?

This is worth watching.

len 

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