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There is a mail list, but it is inactive. Most of the discussion about XML-RPC seems to happen on our web discussion group, discuss.userland.com. Re competition, there's nothing as widely deployed as XML-RPC. I'm sure the DataChannel guys will say that WebBroker is there, it's a note of some kind on the W3C site, but I don't think there are any public implementations of WebBroker. ***Regarding future competition We've been working with Microsoft since March 1998, that's where the original XML-RPC spec came from, we spun it out, while Microsoft debated internally about various details. Every few months they say they're ready to release the new spec, when and if that should happen (I've learned to be "realistic" about this) we will keep moving XML-RPC *and* we will wholeheartedly support what MS is doing, at least based on what we've seen to-date. Our experience is that big companies like to do their own distributed computing specs, and as long as they're compatible at a certain level, this is not a terribly bad thing and is worth supporting to avoid being "crushed" (the press loves do-or-die faceoffs, I'm determined to confuse the hell out of them at least in this area). To answer your final question, we have not submitted XML-RPC to W3C. If they loosen up their membership rules and allow individuals to be involved without paying a fee we'll be happy to work with them. Some compromise is needed. Right now all the implementations come from either small companies or individuals, they're doing excellent work, and it would be stupid of us to hand this over to W3C without a change in their way of working. I understand that they need money to operate, but also am aware that this cuts them off from excellent work being done in the open source and scripting worlds. BTW, this morning Useful Inc shipped a PHP client for XML-RPC. It's really going to be hard to beat this one. So much energy is building.. Dave Winer UserLand Software At 05:29 AM 7/6/99 , Nick Manson wrote: >Other general questions about XML-RPC: > >1) Is there an official mail list or workgroup for XML-RPC? >2) Are there any competing standards with XML-RPC? >3) Does XML-RPC have a W3C note? If not, is one upcoming? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > > Don Park > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 3:55 PM > > To: xml-dev@i... > > Subject: RE: PC Magazine: XML-RPC > > > > > > Dave, > > > > Using XML-RPC, how does a client: > > > > 1. Get a list of all the available methods and their signature > > (i.e. args)? > > 2. Send XML fragments as an argument. > > 3. Send and receive anonymous streams as argument and as result? > > > > Don > > > > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on >CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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