Re: [xml-dev] Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

[Rich Salz]
> > The world is obviously desiring a protocol for application development
that
> > sits above the TCP/UDP layer; HTTP is being positioned for that because
it's
> > the nearest thing to hand.
>
> BEEP.  A real application protocol designed by someone who knows
> networking.

BEEP is billed, not as a protocol, but as a framework for building
protocols.  I haven't really looked into it, but that sounds good to me.

Cheers,

Tom P