XML-RPC and http

[Mark Baker]

7/12/2001 12:30:44 PM, "Lucas Gonze" <lucas@gonze.com> wrote:
>Software developers don't have authority over end users, and standards
>developers don't have authority over developers.  Standards are tools, not laws.
>
>I have smelled the idea that spec developers have lawmaking power in the HTTP
>spec before.   It's always struck me as offensive, particularly when I'm working
>late on actual code.  Who do these guys think they are?
>
>The only sense in which specs are law is the lessig 'code is law' idea.  But
>that's a different kind of authority.

Perhaps an example is in order;

http://www.markbaker.ca/2001/07/12/FluffyBunny

(crosses his fingers that his DSL stays up so he can make his point)

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