[jdev] Re: VTD-XML version 1.6

[Jimmy Zhang]

Yes and no. It is the layer where applications reside, but it is also the 
layer 7 of OSI,
so it is a bit of both... I guess it is just the natural evolution of the 
network...
But the point is that future networking devices will have the horsepower to 
check
for well-formed ness of XML , just like IP packets...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Cridland" <dave at cridland.net>
To: "Jabber software development list" <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [jdev] Re: VTD-XML version 1.6


> On Mon May 22 23:30:01 2006, Jimmy Zhang wrote:
>> http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps6438/c1031/cdccont_0900aecd803fa77d.pdf
>
> Cisco drugs, eh? They're strong stuff. Watch yourself.
>
> Cisco here is basically talking about using a common layer to handle 
> common application level work. This is absolutely not the network layer, 
> this is so far up the stack you'll get a nosebleed. They're basically 
> trying to inject a system for common application-level communications 
> facilities, such as event logging, inter-app messaging, etc, into the 
> enterprise infrastructure.
>
> However, rather sweetly, we have one already that works at the Internet 
> level, called XMPP.
>
> Dave.
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