Here's the data I have.
On Saturday Keith told me about offlist conference calls re interop plans.
I asked that UserLand be included, then I realized this was BS, and said that we should have all discussion in public on this mail list. I posted a message saying that.
Since then it's been kind of quiet. I assume that the offlist discussion continues. But there's no reason the onlist discussion should stop even if some people are talking among themselves.
Also even though I resigned as the designated hardass of SOAP 1.1 interop hasn't stopped the private inquiries from coming to my company, and I need to refer them to a public list to discuss, because I do not want to participate in private discussions re SOAP interop.
What a twisty place in time. So let's move forward? Let's create results. If IBM and Microsoft and others want to promote those results that would be fantastic. In the tradition of IBM running ads for Linux.
But the real work is interop, not marketing, I believe this in my core.
I want to do a spec for a simple subset of SOAP and document it with the same kind of short 4-screen spec that documents XML-RPC.
I'm good at writing these specs. Let me do this, I'm good at it.
Paul, Jake, Simon, Tony, Keith, anyone else, tell me what to write.
We can get this done this week.
What do you think?
I'm tired of waiting.
Dave