Re: Last Call: Using SOAP in BEEP to Proposed Standard

[Dave Crocker]

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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