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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:47:31AM -0400,
 Andrew Newton <anewton@verisignlabs.com> wrote 
 a message of 8 lines which said:

> What about other generic RPC mechanisms such as SOAP and/or CORBA/IIOP?

Very good question. 

SOAP : still a moving target, quite complicated partly because of
featurism, interoperability problems.

Corba : not really in the same category. But I would say that it is
overkill when you have only two partners (a client and a server, like
in IR protocols).