Re: [xml-dev] REST has too many verbs

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:31 pm, Amy Lewis wrote:
> >I like the notion of a spectrum of possibilities.  BEEP certainly
> > seems capable of supporting very complex modes of communication. 
> > HTTP can be useful for request-response.  I'd like something
> > that's just 'send' (aka XMLChucker) to fill out the bottom.
>
> DIME?  Currently an internet draft, but some impls exist.

This occurred to me too... I didn't like DIME at first blush, but DIME 
on a socket  (DOS) might be close to what Simon was talking about.