Re: IETF draft on appropriate uses of HTTP

["Anne Thomas Manes" <annethomas@earthlink.net>]

I want to make it very clear that Sun has NOT said that we will support
SOAP. We have said that if it gets endorsed by ebXML, IETF, W3C, or some
other established consensus body, then we will support SOAP.

Anne Thomas Manes
Director Business Strategy
Sun Microsystems
anne.manes@sun.com
617-497-1748

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Lowe" <hlowe@omg.org>
To: "Ebxml" <ebXML-Transport@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 1:20 PM
Subject: Fwd: IETF draft on appropriate uses of HTTP


> I'm forwarding this for those of you in Brussels and may
> not see it until you get home.  I think it supports the
> case for the use of MIME for ebXML as the TPR WG is
> doing.
>
> How is the Packaging spec fairing?  Also, has SOAP been
> added the agenda with the Sun announcement that it will
> support SOAP 1.1?  The article I saw this morning said
> it would be added to the agenda and I was wondering if
> it had.
>
> Best regards,
> Henry
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> >If you didn't see this on XML-Dev, it's probably worth a look:
> >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-moore-using-http-00.txt
> >
> >(There's also a predecessor at:
> >http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-iesg-using-http-00.txt)
> >
> >The implications for HTTP-based protocols as they exist right now are
well
> >worth considering...
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