[Ietf-not43] XML-RPC for an information service?

[Patrick]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:44:08PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer took time to =
write:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 02:27:23PM -0400,
>  Andrew Newton <anewton@verisignlabs.com> wrote=20
>  a message of 35 lines which said:
>=20
> > I think I would be more supportive of a SOAP standard.
>=20
> Could you explain why? A good explanation would be a proposal using
> SOAP, with features that cannot be done in XML-RPC (for those who
> never tried SOAP or XML-RPC, <summary level=3D"rough">SOAP is a superset
> of XML-RPC</summary>).

Probably a good start for a comparison:
http://weblog.masukomi.org/writings/xml-rpc_vs_soap.htm
(particularly the last =A7)

Based on that, and what I know, I would also favor SOAP over XML-RPC.
Mainly because the thing_to_be_designed is not just about passing
domain names between a client and a server. It is about passing
``something'' between a client and many servers (with the task of
choosing the right one).

Patrick.