At 05:42 AM 9/10/2001, Lloyd Wood wrote:
As reference (1) indicates, SOAP is documented in the W3C. Why is this
work being done as an IETF draft and not in the W3C? BEEP is RFC3080,
but SOAP in BEEP is a SOAP-specific problem, which afaik means it's a
W3C problem.
Ethernet is not an IETF specification, yet the IETF has an IP-over-Ethernet
standard.
The simple fact is that "convergence" layer protocols, that allow one
protocol to work on top of another, are separate specification efforts from
either of the protocols being converged. It is not automatically better to
have the "top" or the "bottom" layer originating standards group do the
convergence protocol.
My own view is that the IETF has very strong skills at doing protocols and
the W3C is strong at doing formats (content). That suggests doing the
convergence protocol in the IETF.
In any event, the specification has been written. Are there any TECHNICAL
problems with it?
d/
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