Yes and no. It is the layer where applications reside, but it is also the
layer 7 of OSI,
so it is a bit of both... I guess it is just the natural evolution of the
network...
But the point is that future networking devices will have the horsepower to
check
for well-formed ness of XML , just like IP packets...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Cridland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jabber software development list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [jdev] Re: VTD-XML version 1.6
On Mon May 22 23:30:01 2006, Jimmy Zhang wrote:
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps6438/c1031/cdccont_0900aecd803fa77d.pdf
Cisco drugs, eh? They're strong stuff. Watch yourself.
Cisco here is basically talking about using a common layer to handle
common application level work. This is absolutely not the network layer,
this is so far up the stack you'll get a nosebleed. They're basically
trying to inject a system for common application-level communications
facilities, such as event logging, inter-app messaging, etc, into the
enterprise infrastructure.
However, rather sweetly, we have one already that works at the Internet
level, called XMPP.
Dave.
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