paul@[...].net (Paul Prescod) writes:
> Then some marketroid decided ot hijack the term and specialize it to 
> "XML artificats blah blah metadata blah blah blah". That was a stupid 
> decision. Almost everyone agrees that that was a stupid decision. The 
> question is whether the W3C should now ratify that decision so that 
> people like my wife and your cousin will be permanently confused about 
> what computer people mean by "Web Service" or whether the W3C should 
> invent a new term so that elite, cutting edge computer people can use 
> the term the same way everyone else has been using the term as common 
> sense since the mid 90s.

Labeling an Internet product "Web" to get some buzz is like, so mid-90s.
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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