SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol Specification: The Internet Draft is the speficification of SOAP, which defines an RPC mechanism using XML for client/server interaction across a network by using HTTP as the base transport and XML documents for encoding of invocation requests and responses. By D. Box, G. Kakivaya, , A. Layman, S. Thatte, and D. Winer.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.2: W3C Working Draft 9 July 2001. SOAP version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol.
XML Protocol (XMLP) Requirements: Describes the XML Protocol Working Group's requirements for the XML Protocol (XMLP) specification.