If I were XML king for a day and could make any change I wanted to XML it would be to add length encoding. Length encoding would provide an order of magnitude better performance in handling XML messages, make XML proxies practical and finally rid us of MIME.
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Royalty Free/Reciprocal
How can something be a de jure standard and still not be open and freely available? When it's license isn't Royalty Free/Reciprocal.
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Jim Whitehead's Comments
Jim Whitehead's Comments on my article comparing protocols and RPCs. Continue reading Jim Whitehead's Comments
The Difference between RPCs and Protocols
So what's the difference between RPCs and Protocols and why does it matter? Continue reading The Difference between RPCs and Protocols
Security/Performance/Reliability (SPR) and the Myth of Experts
It begins when management realizes that a systemic problem exists in the software they are developing, usually security, performance or reliability (SPR) related. Management gets worried and decides to bring in an expert, a guru who is to fix the problem.
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Limitations of IP Multicasting
For a long time there has been the distant promise that someday we would all just use IP multicasting for distributing content through the Internet. The idea that one could send a packet to one address and have it magically appear at multiple destinations was a compelling one. However IP Multicast has never taken off outside of Intranets. I believe that the fundamental reason for IP Multicast's failure to reach its promised potential is that IP Multicast does not scale very well. Specifically, each router on the distribution path of an IP Multicast must allocate memory to remember that multicast for the length of the multicast session. This means that as the number of multicast sessions that cross that router grow so will the amount of memory the router has to allocate. While the rate of increase of multicast sessions is exponential the rate of increase of memory required is linear.
Why TLS doesn't replace VPN for Enterprise customers
If you can establish a TLS connection to your enterprise remotely. then why do you need VPN/IPSEC? Given that any TCP based protocol can be run over TLS it would seem that the ubiquitous support for TLS has solved our remote access end-to-end security problems.
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UPnP Security Flaws
When I heard that UPnP, a sub system of Windows XP I helped to architect when I had worked at Microsoft in the 1990s, had a major security hole you can imagine I was more than a little curious. So I decided to investigate. Continue reading UPnP Security Flaws
Yaron's WebDAV Agenda
The purpose of this document is to provide a quick introduction to the full power of the WebDAV (http://www.webdav.org) data model.
Yaron's (not so) Quick and (really) Dirty Guide to WSDL
What is WSDL and how does it work? Continue reading Yaron's (not so) Quick and (really) Dirty Guide to
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