XP

Mark Baker (distobj@acm.org)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 01:06:31 -0500

I figure anything with the words "extensible" and "protocol" has to, sooner
or later, be archived on FoRK. Might as well be me, since I'm foolin'
around with the idea myself ... but it looks nothing like this;

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-harding-extensible-protocol-00.txt
http://newton.thinlink.com/xp/

Abstract

This memo defines the Extensible Protocol (XP). XP is a generic
application-level protocol meant to serve as the foundation for
specific protocols, in a manner analogous to the way in which the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) recommendation of the World Wide Web
Consortium serves as the foundation for specific markup languages. XP
is a bidirectional protocol on which XML documents are exchanged
between two endpoints.

Pretty slim and low-level, but I'm not sure this is the right place to
start. I consider request/response matching a pretty high-level construct
- important, but not something you want to specify at the base. I do
however like the idea of abstracting object identity via event
notifications ("Channel") - it solved a whole lot of problems for me
(global id namespace, language-independant id representation).

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