A New microsoft "protocol" concern

[Bill Ries-Knight <brk@slip.net>]

Here is a snip from a page at MSDN spotligting the new DNA2000 concept.

I wonder if the new protocol may be akin to the Microsoft enabled JAVA
in attempting to do an end run around the standards proposed by the
NON-Microsoft community.

Bill

>>>>>SNIP
  XML and SOAP.
XML is the key enabler for Microsoft's vision of integrated,
programmable   Web services is XML. Through the exchange of XML
messages, services can easily describe  their capabilities and allow any
other service, application or device on the Internet to easily  invoke
those capabilities. To help realize that vision, Microsoft submitted to
the Internet  Engineering Task Force (IETF) an Internet draft
specification for the Simple Object Access  Protocol (SOAP), an
XML-based mechanism that bridges different object models over the
Internet and provides an open mechanism for Web services to communicate
with one  another.
<<<<<<SNIP
Page Location
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/stratday/