Don Box - champion of COM. Is it any wonder that HTTP is no longer
sufficient. Besides, it's not Microsoft proprietary.

Dave LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@[...].org]
>  Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:09
>  To: xml-dev@[...].org
>  Subject: [xml-dev] MS thinks HTTP Needs Replacing???
> 
> 
> 
>  See
>  http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105076,00.html
> 
>  'The protocol used to deliver Web pages has reached its limits for Web
>  services and peer-to- peer applications, according to Microsoft .Net
>  evangelist Don Box ...
> 
>  Among the problems with HTTP, said Box, is the fact that it is a Remote
>  Procedure Call (RPC) protocol; something that one program (such as a
>  browser) uses to request a service from another program located in
>  another computer (the server) in a network without having to understand
>  network details.
> 
>  This works for small transactions asking for Web pages, but when Web
>  services start running transactions that take some time to complete over
>  the protocol, the model fails. "If it takes three minutes for a response,
>  it is not really HTTP any more," Box said. The problem, said Box, is that
>  the intermediaries -- that is, the companies that own the routers and
>  cables between the client and server -- will not allow single
>  transactions that take this long."'
> 


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