So, I finally got around to watching the movie that Dick Hardt made of his OSCON presentation. It’s very cool. I agree with almost every word he says. Of course, the devil is in the details. My opinion of the relative merits of the various protocols and standards that he mentions, I will save for another day, but I do want to disabuse you, the reader of this post, of one incorrect statement that Dick makes in his presentation;
XDI and XRI, have a very simple and open (OASIS based) APIs that include no specific transport binding specification. However, the current implementations (Java, .net and I believe, python) are all SOAP bound for a matter of convenience (and as a matter of practicality for the uses for which these efforts have been implemented). So, to state that they don’t “do web services’ is just plain wrong. (Other implementations that are bound to http and tcp will be coming soon for your personal identity service, but that’s for another post)
So, if you do know Dick….. please let him know. ( of course, I may have misunderstood what he was saying, in which case let me know).
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