A Critical Look at MCP

Re:A Critical Look at MCP by mmcnl on Saturday May 10, 2025 @04:55PM (#43948914)

But the spec is on the transport level. So for the specification, the transport layer is very important.

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Re:A Critical Look at MCP by practal on Saturday May 10, 2025 @05:01PM (#43948967)

This is the spec that counts: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

How exactly those messages get transported is not really relevant for implementing an mcp server, and easy to switch, as long as there is some standard.

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Re:A Critical Look at MCP by vlovich123 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:01PM (#43949355)

You’re ignoring the power of network effects - “shitty but widely adopted” makes “better but just starting adoption harder” to grow. Think about how long it takes to create a new HTTP standard - we’ve had 3 HTTP standards in the past 30 years, the first 19 of which so no major changes. HTTP/2 kind of saw no adoption in practice and HTTP/3 is still a mixed bag. In fact, most of the servers pretend HTTP/1 with layers in front converting the protocols.

Underestimate network effects and ossification at your own peril.

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