23 Apr 2002 simonstl   » (Master)

Hitting the fault line

Anne Thomas Manes pounded on the W3C for being academic, apparently because not everyone loves Web Services. After she insisted that the W3C's Technical Architecture Group step aside when "big business" had work to do, Roy Fielding replied quite powerfully:

"If this thing is going to be called Web Services, then I insist that it actually have something to do with the Web. If not, I'd rather have the WS-I group responsible for abusing the marketplace with yet another CORBA/DCOM than have the W3C waste its effort pandering to the whims of marketing consultants. I am not here to accommodate the requirements of mass hysteria."

I covered the discussion in my O'Reilly weblog, but it's awfully hard to express the extreme divergence of views any better than they've already done.

A later post from David Orchard and a reply from Fielding illuminate the divide even more.

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