It’s just data
Suffice it to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation. In the process he of the 45 minute presentation, Don visually and graphically demonstrated not only the points made above, but also in the process he reinforced a number of entries he has recently made to his weblog: I have a new blog front end, Skin is in the game, and Clemens takes the red pill.
I've had the pleasure of seeing Don speaking, twice, and I've throughly enjoyed them both.
FWIW, I'm quite looking forward to what's coming down the pipe :)
<p>Last week Don Box's
keynote at XML Web Services One drew quite a bit of attention because of the
'read
less specs, build more apps' statement . It particularly ironic to see that Don is co-author on the new
ws-reliablemessaging spec and the editor of the
ws-addressing
spec. I wonder whether he actually wants us to read these ... </p>
<p>As much as I like the techniques described in these proposals, I think they
could make a lot more impact if they would be accompanied by an implementation.
I think Don's read-vs-build statement would have made a lot more sense if the
developers would indeed have a reference implementation to work with. In the
days that the IETF hadn't turned the internet equivalent of the OMG, there were
requirements that a spec could not move forward if there were not at least two
independent implementation, with proven interoperability. I think we could make
big strides forward in establishing the post-html web world, if the companies
that champion these new specs would also produce reference implementations, so
that applications Don is talking about can actually get build.</p>
<p>I'll hold off on commenting about the content of the specs until I have
figured out their impact on the reliability work we have been doing in-house in
the past month.</p>...
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