--- In [email protected], "Mark Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
And Jan to be fair... Mark, I don't know if Roy Fielding has ever formally ordained you as a sort of Senior Executive Apostle, but you were certainly the first to make a serious effort at proselitising REST in our humble Group. So let me ask you: do you think that as Web 2.x and Mashups gain mmomentum that this will help REST to gain popularity at the expense of WS-*? Gervas
