[cap-talk] OO interoperation via OCap, presentation level issues

[Karp, Alan H]

John Carlson wrote:
>
> It seems like marshalling and unmarshalling has been
> done many times, with such as things as Web Services, HTTP, MIME, EDI,
> CORBA, RMI, XDR/RPC,DCOM, JSON,
> Lisp s-expressions etc. etc.  No need to reinvent the wheel.  You just
> have to find something that everyone can read and write.  My personal
> favorite right now is JSON.
>
The operative words are "right now."  Any protocol must provide a means for negotiating the version to be used.

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