• To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@p...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented v
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:46:22 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <3C63A915.9E1035B5@p...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> >
> > For networking people, the application has always been "the
> bit of software
> > that sits at the next layer up from me". I remember OSI
> folks talking about
> > file transfer and terminal emulation as applications!
>
> This is exactly how XML and SGML people use the word application also!
>
> But in this case there is a basically fixed definition, not a relative
> one:
>
> http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gorry/course/intro-pages/osi.html
>

Eh? That does what OSI has always done, it defines the application layer as
the layer concerned with provided services to the application. How can you
call that a definition?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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