Identical Principles, Higher Layers: Modeling Web Services as Protocol Stack By Mark | 2005/06/22 0 Comment Interesting paper by the late Mario Jeckle. It’s the first time I’ve seen somebody say explicitly that HTTP is a layer 5/6 protocol. That’s wrong, of course; it’s layer 7. (link) [del.icio.us/distobj] Related posts: The irony of protocol independence Protocol independence DaveO on leaky protocol abstractions REST Workflow paper WS-Why