Applications Messaging Standard

[John Taylor]

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>> Doug Tody wrote:
>>> In any case, the real issue here is not what the current PLASTIC  
>>> implementation does, but what we want for an inter-tool messaging  
>>> standard developed via the IVOA framework.
>>
>> Absolutely, however I think the first thing we should do is take a  
>> hard look at PLASTIC. Its proved that it can fill the inter- 
>> application messaging niche extremely successfully, and has been  
>> widely adopted, usually from the ground up, rather than imposed  
>> from the top down. That says to me that its easy to develop  
>> against and that it does what it sets out to do well enough that  
>> people are willing to overlook its flaws (and I'd be the first to  
>> say there are several, sorry John!)...
>>

Hey - you're talking to the author of the "What I hate about PLASTIC  
wiki page".  There's plenty of things I'd like to change.
John