Thursday, October 28, 2004

Pervasive integration requires pervasive intermediation. Jon Udell makes a great point about pervasive intermediation. His basic point is the architecture of SOAP processing model is necessary to generalize and extend the ad hoc intermediation architecture of HTTP, which has proved so essential to the web's scalability and flexibility. This is a fundamental point about SOAP intermediaries that I have been trying to drive home as well. This year's METAmorphosis conference has the theme pervasive integration, which leads to the "obvious" conclusion that pervasive integration requires pervasive intermediation. The web did not disintermediate, it is reintermediating (refactoring intermediation). 3:39:43 PM