on 8/15/2003 11:12 AM Larry Osterman wrote: > You're confusing a protocol and an interoperable protocol. Both are > protocols, a protocol is just another word for "format of bits on the > wire".
"behavioral rules" actually, but which may include "format of bits on the wire" as a subset. All APIs are arguably protocols...but from the IETF perspective there's an implicit distinction with distributed functions. Personally I consider MAPI an API not a protocol. Sending the data as opaque bits over RPC is an API-extension "protocol", but doesn't make the underlying API a distributed protocol. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
