The process worked, it yielded a spec that many are saying is elegant and simple and useful. Every bit of praise that XML-RPC has gotten equally belongs to Microsoft. Now we have to go more slowly and carefully because there are compatible cross-platform implementations. It's an idea out of the science fiction books. But the web should run faster than TV because the web has multiple channels and television is serial, it gets bogged down in the yawning rhetoric of Washington politicians and political analysts.
TV is amazingly repetitive.
I want to send private email that no one else can read. I understand that President Clinton and his FBI director Louis Freeh are in the way of that. Let's do the people's business here. Give the people the privacy that many of them think they have. Or stand up and make a speech about this, explaining to the millions of AOL and new Internet users that they don't have privacy, and why you can't let them have it.