{"id":1177,"date":"2005-12-03T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/12\/03\/the-end-of-the-plumbing-wars\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T04:20:00","slug":"the-end-of-the-plumbing-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/the-end-of-the-plumbing-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the plumbing wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching 10 years ago (gasp!), a group of us on the distributed\nobjects mailing list used to think ahead to what the world would look\nlike once the &#8220;plumbing wars&#8221; were over; that is, once the planet agreed\non an infrastructure which could facilitate ad-hoc, loosely coupled,\nmachine-to-machine integration between untrusted parties over the Internet.<\/p>\n\n<p>Thinking back on that just now, with nearly 10 years of additional\nexperience under my belt, a couple of interesting observations can be made.<\/p>\n\n<p>The first is that we all seemingly made this implicit assumption that the\nplanet would just agree <em>in unison<\/em>; that something would be\ndeveloped and everybody would instantly know that this was <em>it<\/em>,\nthen immediately get to work on building the fun stuff on top.<\/p>\n\n<p>The second observation is that back in 1996, this infrastructure of our\ndreams <em>had already been deployed<\/em>!  It was, of course, the Web, right\nunder our noses the whole time, and moreover, built atop a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/People\/Connolly\/9703-web-apps-essay.html\">distributed object model<\/a>.\nOh, the irony!<\/p>\n\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s abundantly clear now that not only will everybody <em>not<\/em>\nagree in unison, but that a large chunk of the industry never even gave the Web\nserious consideration as such a platform.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Who knew?<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approaching 10 years ago (gasp!), a group of us on the distributed objects mailing list used to think ahead to what the world would look like once the &#8220;plumbing wars&#8221; were over; that is, once the planet agreed on an infrastructure which could facilitate ad-hoc, loosely coupled, machine-to-machine integration between untrusted parties over the Internet. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}