I've been meaning to do a rant on the IPC solution that RPC/HTTP provides, and how it is not adequate for certain applications. After reading Don Box's interview with .NET Developer's Journal, it seems we are finally starting to see a mainstream effort to remove our dependence on HTTP for web services. Who says "the web" is limited to port 80?
Don Box pin-points the idea that there is a need to move away from HTTP as a transport for services in favor of a transport-neutral stack. This is a feature both Microsoft's Indigo and the IETF's BEEP.
It's a great idea, and I suspect Microsoft will be adding all sorts of goodies to the Indigo framework SDK to make IPC under Indigo simple to implement.
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