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This is how MS is work­ing slowly, but surely, to con­vert the Web from open stan­dards to their .Net “vision”. Appar­ently, HTTP needs to be replaced, at least accord­ing to a .Net team mem­ber. And it isn’t P2P, either (or from MS, but I digress).

He seems to con­fuse issues with some of the Internet’s infra­struc­ture with prob­lems in HTTP itself. But that’s assum­ing he doesn’t have an agenda (we know bet­ter). As inter­est­ing as Web Ser­vices are, they aren’t the only thing, despite MS’s recent con­cen­tra­tion on them. Unfor­tu­nately, they have the clout and mind­share to make peo­ple think them the be all and end all. And that’s prob­a­bly enough to doom HTTP.

Which is not to say HTTP is per­fect, it isn’t. But like much of the pro­to­cols that underly the Inter­net, it’s sim­ple and can be made to things it’s design­ers never intended. It should be replaced, but not by some­thing designed to facil­i­tate only some of the pos­si­ble traffic.

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