Re: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:59:57 EDT, Lee Rafalow said:
> In general, the technical and industry requirements can be demonstrated by
> the fact that there are emerging w3c standards and implementations for
> constructing distributed applications by calling web services and,

Remember that the w3c is by definition a vendor of hammers, and thus
has a vested interest in constructing nail-delivery protocols.

Or less cynically put - is calling web services the best way to construct
a distributed application?

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech