I gave such a Sunday tutorial at IETF70. The slides are here (somewhat dated, but still useful I’d say): http://www.tbray.org/tmp/IETF70.pdf -Tim On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) <dworley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Mark Nottingham [mnot@xxxxxxxx] >> >> What surprises me and many others is that people are still using it >> and promoting it, when it's well-understood by almost EVERYONE who was >> involved in using XML for protocols in the past ten years agrees that >> it's a mistake. > > It sounds to me like what is needed is some sort of "best common > practices" document regarding data aggregation and encoding, or even > perhaps an IETF Sunday tutorial. Lots of people who are never going > to become experts in the field need to make good choices when > designing protocols... > > Dale