Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and active intermediaries

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Comment: some great techno-babble

The nascent Web services industry has so far focused mainly on the technical implications of these active intermediaries. They do make it vastly easier to integrate systems that pass around packets of self-describing data. But the reasons for this go beyond the regularity of XML data and the ubiquity of tools that can parse, search, and transform it. XML data flows fundamentally alter the political landscape of IT, shifting the locus of control away from the service endpoints and into the fabric of the network itself.
... [Jon's Radio]