I'm sad. I so wanted to go the SOAPBuilders F2F in San Jose.

Alas, there was a person from another company who I needed to meet with during that time. Of course, our meeting got postponed to later at the last minute, and thus I suppose I could have gone. Then again, I'm in the middle of hairy product cycle, so perhaps it was all for the best. I will be at the next one. No way I'm missing that.

I heard that Rebecca from IONA thinks that SwA should be done next, instead of DIME. I understand the reasoning, but I think it's a bad idea. DIME is technically superior to SwA. I firmly believe that SwA is a bad idea, and that file attachments in SOAP are better done via DIME. It isn't a politics thing at all. Look at the authors of SwA: Henrik from Microsoft (and another MSFT-er, and an HP-er). Notice the authors for DIME: includes Henrik from MSFT. I trust Henrik when he says DIME is a better answer. (You can also see his name on the SOAP spec, and the HTTP spec. He seems to know what he's talking about.)