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Someone somewhere knows what the URI identifies and has to tell you. "A closed world problem is one where you know all of the users, you can share a data model with them, and you can all communicate directly as to your needs." get(myName, "you know my name; lookup the number") ain't that brilliant. Seems to me that if all you want is that, you don't want web services; you want a telephone operator with a local exchange so you can call and ask for a service from a global exchange and hope the locals don't put you on hold or lose the context of the request. Otherwise, how would you comparison shop? (Progressive customers expect comparison pricing...). It wasn't brilliance; it was the persuasion required to get anyone to accept a uniform namespace for one application sitting a top a transport system, and the arrogance to suggest that it is the only application worth considering. len -----Original Message----- From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...] There are many application protocols that retrieve stuff; FTP, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP (VRFY & EXPN, for example). To generalize those into "GET", plus a URI to identify what is being "gotten", was a stroke of brilliance.
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