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

[Mark Baker]

> Putting the Web Services world in a situation where it needs a discovery protocol
> to find out how to layer SOAP is not at all an abstract issue. Or do you think
> the WSDL for each Web Service is going to define the available layerings? What
> is a poor vendor to do other than support all of them, and what is the technical
> justification for that? imho this is an absolutely valid last call issue.
> (If this had been a WG work item, it would have been discussed as a WG charter
> issue.)

I don't have an opinion on the larger issue here, but I did want to
point out that the "Web Services world" is far from clear about what
it wants to achieve, let alone *how*.  There exists major architectural
disconnects between existing Web architecture, and the architecture
commonly associated to "Web Services".

IMO, it's premature to use that as an example.

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