On 12/9/06, Gervas Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, Mark, are you in effect asserting that REST as a disruptive > technology could cause, shall we say, career and economic problems for some > of the less agile members of the WS-* community, or am I reading far too much > into this?
No, you're bang on, Gervas. > My personal opinion is that you as an individual have done much to bring > REST's virtues to the attention of the world; however as I have alluded > before, perhaps it needs more structure and resources to really take off. Thanks. But in one very important sense REST is doing just fine; the Web remains the largest and most successful distributed system we humans have ever developed, while Web services wouldn't make it onto a list of the top 1000. Hence my focus isn't on seeing REST do well, because it's already winning; it's on trying to help Web services proponents realize the benefits of using a Web based approach to solving their, and their customers', Web services problems. I also try to prevent their specs from harming the Web too, of course, but there's been little of that to worry about recently. So from that POV, I don't think we need more structure or resources. I think we could just do with some new blood which understands REST, but has different ways of explaining its value. Folks like Stuart and Stefan, for example. Mark.
