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RE: Evaluating RPC versus REST

  • To: 'Mike Champion' <mc@x...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
  • Subject: RE: Evaluating RPC versus REST
  • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:18:08 -0600

rpc versus rest
Which is why "impress me" is stronger than 
"imprimatur", IMO.  Selling the imprimatur and 
demanding fealty for it sounds a lot more 
like enslavement than pay for the patent 
or negotiate or just build it and let's 
see what works.   I am a believer in 
the rights of the inventor, sort of the 
Howard Roark approach.  It didn't mean 
he wouldn't help; it meant he had the 
right to set the terms and the reasonable 
expectation these terms would be met.  One 
does not serve on demand, but on request 
and acknowledgement.

When we started calling specs for 
emerging technologies, "standards" we 
forged our own chains.  When we demand 
global namespace as the only right way 
to build Internet applications, we forge 
our own chains.  If we ignore an emerging 
tech or fail to recognize the utility of 
the namespace, we can dig our own latrines 
and might leave our businesses in them. 
Choice is risky.  Live long and prosper, 
or live short and wither.

But regardless, communication is about choice. 
My fear is that to be heros or to unify, we 
are forging chains.  Our privacy is already 
gone.  Will our choices go next?

paranoidly yours,
len

From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...]

I just want to make sure that a decision to standardize on
the RPC paradigm today doesn't lose us a war with the
aliens in 2150, as all those threads waiting for a
response to an RPC invocation of a web service light-minutes
away lock up the command and control systems <grin>.

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