“The crucial difference being, Torvalds is talking about an OS kernel, while Winer’s “specs” are supposed to define a method for interoperability.” Bingo! Over-the-network interop too.
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A must-read by anybody who’s ever done standards work (P.S. I’m one of the 20)
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A post of mine on the xfytec.com site.
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Guy trying to get 1,000,000 air miles in a month on an unlimited flight pass. Stick it to the man!
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More fuel on the URI/QName fire. Things would be so much simpler if we could just assume concatenated ns and name, no?
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“Dude, that’s two postage stamps!”. Heh.
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PDF slides by Joyce Park of Renkoo
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“It’s all strings, man”
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Via Jef Newsom, Clemens Vasters describes his current, very cool project. He writes;

In fact, the entire server will likely not put a single plain-text, XML 1.0 encoded SOAP envelope onto the wire, but will be rather REST-ish and POX-ish.

Who knew?! 8-)

“why package that as a different browser and not a set of extensions for a browser that can use as many friends and supporters as it can?” My thoughts exactly.
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