XML Protocol Working Group
  - Created in September 2000.
- Result of growing interest in the use of XML in distributed
    applications communication.
- XML Protocol (XMLP) Working Group chartered to
    design: 
    
      - an envelope encapsulating XML data.
- a convention of RPC (Remote Procedure Call) applications.
- a data serialization mechanism for non-syntactic data models.
- a mechanism to use HTTP as a transport mechanism.
 
- Technical solutions proposed by the SOAP/1.1 submission
- Home page:
    http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/