resuming progress on TAP

[Ray Plante]

Hi TAPers,

I'm glad to see the people who were reluctant to jump in jumping in.  I'm 
also bummed I missed the day it seemed to happen.

I would like to suggest that my core question, what in the previous WDs 
are we trying to fix?, has yet to be spelled out.  I think Keith comes the 
closest in his statement, "Conflating the Service Interface with the 
Payload is the crux of the TAP issues, IMHO".  And so what are the issues?

Or does the current discussion come under category of public review of the 
tiger team's work in which some fundemental choice is being rejected?

Last weekend, I reread versions 0.30 and 0.31, and I was reminded that the 
result was pretty good.  So perhaps as a community we might come to 
conclude that these are flawed, not self-consistent or not future-proof. 
That's what public review is meant to do: correct problems.  Recognize 
also that in doing so, we are stepping backward again.

cheers,
Ray