On 16 Aug 2010, at 20:52, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Actually, I'd dispute that. The INTERNET is perhaps the largest system ever > built, the web rides on top of a lot of lower level infrastructure. There's > a lot of other stuff riding on top of the underlying IP infrastructure - > email, VoIP, chat, etc. - which don't rely on HTTP. (Note: I speak as > someone who dates back to almost the beginning - I spent a good part of my > career at BBN, just as we were transitioning the ARPANET to TCP/IP, and it > was serving as the hub of the then fledgling Internet).
I was anticipating this response. :) My reply would be to state that the Web subsumes the Internet in many ways. > True. Though, it has also lead to (IMHO) abortions such as SOAP - which Dave > Winer initially wrote as a way to use HTTP to tunnel traffic through > firewalls. LOL I think you mean XML-RPC, but they're both as bad as each other. In either case, they are so hilariously against everything the Web stands for, it's not really applicable!
