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Re: [hybi] BEEP

Mark Baker <mark@coactus.com> Tue, 14 April 2009 01:19 UTC

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Most of the BEEP RFCs are 8 years old now, and there hasn't been a lot of
> adoption. There might be good ideas there, but something is clearly amiss.
> It might be the XML dependency, it might be something else.

The problem with any standardized protocol at that layer is that there
are essentially no network effects; multiple parties using a BEEP
based protocol cannot benefit from each other's deployed software in
the same way that Web publishers benefit from each new deployed
browser (and vice-versa).  Network effects of that kind come only from
agreement on an application protocol, not a framework for developing
application protocols.

Mark.

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