The fact that it ignores other standards may be true but one of the design goals is to do for data transfer what OpenID has done for single sign-on; light-weight, simple, easy-to-implement, etc. Think of the proposal as a best-of-breed of those heavier technologies.To my mind, best-of-breed implies that the old and new are still of the same breed. But, were OpenID to continue down this road, DTP and the existing XML-based messaging stack would be completely separate species with no chance of successful intermixing.
To Do: make some analogy on how whippets and St. Bernards, bred for very different applications over generations of artificial selection, can still interbreed. ...
Scott adds:
The same can be said of OpenID as it relates to SAML ...I agree.
Regardless, a comment from Grant Monroe on my original post indicates that the next rev of DTP will ditch XML completely and instead build on MIME and S/MIME. So, it seems this particular concern is moot.
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