Little factoid - I invented this:

[link|http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments|http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments]

Proposing it to the soap-builders list hosted by DevelopMentor in summer 2000. The list archives have vanished from the web. Basically I was trying out SOAP type messaging for integrating [link|http://translations.com/products/Ultra_a.html|ULTRA] with client content management systems. I found that inlining html into xml was FUGLY and began looking at ebXML as an alternative. I think they have the superior technology and they were moving multi-document assemblies around using MIME. Looked like a great idea so inspired, I fooled around and came up with a similar technique using multi-part mime wrappers of soap messages. Worked great for my application.

Upon posting the proposal to this list - I was panned by the "community" - and a couple months later one Satish Thatte of Microsoft posts a link to the aforementioned proposal.

Liars, thieves and greedy fuckers.