@fuzzix I have bad news for you: #SOAP came out of that same era. It was an over-engineered adaptation by #Microsoft and @w3c of @davew’s #XMLRPC

Mind you, the entire #XML-based #WebServices stack of standards is being re-accreted on top of #JSON with efforts like #OpenAPI and JSON Schema. The final and once-again neglected piece is automated service discovery à la #UDDI