[DuncanIdaho]

He said put brains into it.

Not in a sense: "Throw your brains in for zombies to have a party". But in a sense that one should try and think and find protocols which are elegant in a sense that it makes reasoning about and using them easy and simple.

I agree that coming up with SOAP and XML-RPC took quite some brains and effort, too bad that some really good people had to be lobotomized for it.