Re: "I am a strong believer in the democratic process."

[Mahadevan Iyer]

Jim Fleming wrote:

> http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/select/1098/int.html
>
> DEERING: Whatever happens, the Web will be kept working; it's the dominant
> application. What we're seeing is people proposing new applications built on
> top of HTTP, because it goes through the firewalls or it's universally
> available, and, in fact, IP gets relegated to a single roll as a layer 2
> technology. HTTP is the universal connectivity.
>

For many non real-time applications, yes.   You cannot design a good telephone
or TV like service over HTTP..or TCP :)