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RE: WSIO- With Name

• To: 'Mark Baker' <distobj@a...>, mc@x...
• Subject: RE: WSIO- With Name
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:33:21 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

If "The Web" had done that, we would have 
interoperable Internet services now instead of 
emailing documents to each other.   

Web services are not The Web. 

In fact, there ain't no "The Web".  It's a 
myth like King Arthur's Court.  It never 
existed.  It is often spoken of by religious 
technical archaeologists digging through ruins whose 
builders left no decipherable records so 
all they really have are theories about how 
the parts were intended to work together. 

;-)

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...]
> The alternative of waiting for the "real" standards bodies (or 
> theorists/researchers) to do this is simply not an option that one could 
> advocate and keep one's job, I would guess.

I think it speaks volumes about the quality of these specifications if
they need profiles to "make it easier to discuss Web services
interoperability".

Could you imagine if the Web had done that?  LOL.

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