Tuesday, April 02, 2002

TCP/IP as XML. The award for the best April Fools joke this year goes to Hugh Kennedy for RFC 3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (BLOAT). This document defines a reformulation of IP and two transport layer protocols (TCP and UDP) as XML applications. ... The following is an example IPoXML datagram with an empty payload: Classic. [diveintomark] 5:14:27 PM

DJ Adams responds to my walkthrough viewed from Jabber.  [Scripting News] 6:38:26 AM

Peter Millard's take on the Jabber/Instant Outlining stuff. In the vernacular of the day, "Word, yo." [Dizzy: dizzyd] 6:38:22 AM

Jon Udell: Java, XML and Web services.  [Scripting News] 6:38:17 AM

DJ Adams did a block diagram that illustrates the relationship between our publish-subscribe network and the connection to Instant Messaging that I am looking for.  [Scripting News] 6:38:13 AM

Instant Outlining in Radio 8 is still a beta and will be for a while. If you're an adventurous soul with high tolerance for user interface glitches and new ideas, please give it a try. Everything Jon said is true, and what Tim said is true too. It's not for everyone. But it is for workgroups who want to get to the next level after email.   [Scripting News] 6:38:08 AM

Jon Udell's piece on Instant Outlining is available on O'Reilly. "It's been clear to me for a long while that the only thing that might displace email would be some kind of persistent IM. That's exactly what instant outlining is. If it catches on, and it's buzz-worthy enough to do that, we'll have a framework within which to innovate in ways that email never allowed."  [Scripting News] 6:37:54 AM