{"id":578,"date":"2004-11-23T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2004\/11\/23\/indiscriminate-consumption\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T12:10:00","slug":"indiscriminate-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/11\/indiscriminate-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiscriminate consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, Phil Wainewright had a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.looselycoupled.com\/blog\/lc00aa00071.html\">great post<\/a>\non the role of standards.  A few people picked up on it, but nobody\npicked up on the opening sentence (AFAICT);<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nDoes anyone still believe that web services will be published and consumed indiscriminately on the open Internet?\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I believe when people set out to build Web services five or so years\nago, they were trying to enable just that, yes.  But I agree that it\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/2002\/04\/WebServicesGrowth\/\">hasn&#8217;t happened yet<\/a>,\nnor will it likely ever with the current approach IMO.<\/p>\n\n<p>Phil adds;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nIf standards bodies were supposed to innovate, they&#8217;d be called innovation bodies. Standards, by definition, can&#8217;t be innovative. This is the trouble with all the work currently being put into the WS-* stack. Talented people are wasting time and resources devising capabilities that will never, ever be used. Only those specs that reflect established, proven practices will successfully become durable standards.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Which, taken with the above, says to me that if we want to enable a\nworld of indiscriminate consumption of remote third party services, we\nneed to do so in a manner similar to other systems which have done just\nthat, like the Web, email, instant messaging, etc&#8230;  Namely, by using\na constrained interface, and embracing (application) protocol dependence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of weeks ago, Phil Wainewright had a great post on the role of standards. A few people picked up on it, but nobody picked up on the opening sentence (AFAICT); Does anyone still believe that web services will be published and consumed indiscriminately on the open Internet? I believe when people set out [&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-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}