RFC: Really Simple Discoverability
Sorry Sam, I didn't mean "tricky" with any negative connotation.
I did look at the prior art, couldn't find an implementations of WSIL, and based on an article I read by Timothy Appnel decided that the two are somewhat similar but speak to different audiences. Same with UDDI/WSDL.
I wrote elsewhere that I believe that WSIL is stepping stone to WSDL/UDDI and that Apache's implementation is based on that theory. That WSIL doesn't particularly (and wasn't meant to) stand alone.
Someone else suggested that we're all headed toward WSDL. May be, but I'm a big believer in little steps and gaining collective understanding. Dave and others call that bootstrapping. That's what RSD is. A small step on the road to getting things done.
Or like you say, an incremental enhancement, that makes sense to do.
Posted by Daniel Berlinger