Article:		The State of XML: Why Individuals Matter
Subject:		Rubber-stamping SOAP?
Date:		2001-05-31 18:26:38
From:		Michael Champion
One nitpick. "There is a body of opinion that holds that the W3C should have rubber-stamped the SOAP protocol ... the role played by the XML Protocol Working Group is more crucially a political one ... than the strictly technical role of standardization. The unprecedented size of the Working Group ... confirms this suspicion. A lean, mean, spec machine? Doubtful." One can admire the work that has gone into SOAP 1.0 and 1.1 without wanting it "rubberstamped" by the W3C. The XMLP WG is doing some hard, unglamorous work -- the kind that has to be done to turn a "specification" into a "standard." A good example is the detailed analysis and reccomended cleanup of one tiny corner of SOAP by Frank DeRose at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2001May/0328.html The XML world would be well advised to respect the trimming and weeding efforts as well as the more visible ground-breaking efforts.

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