Firing squad

I think we should take the “Web Services” label into the jailyard, strap on a blindfold, give it a last cigarette, and shoot it. It doesn’t mean much any more, and to the extent that it does, it’s misleading: WS-* doesn’t have much of the Web about it. I don’t have a proposal for a new name for the WS-* style; sorry, but I just don’t care.

From Tim Bray, Styles: Beyond WS and REST.