The doctoral thesis does not describe RPC at all. It is a more general description of a request/response pattern for navigation of something like a website, by

The doctoral thesis does not describe RPC at all. It is a more general description of a request/response pattern for navigation of something like a website, by an agent. I would wager that virtually nobody read the thing, and some of those that actually did drew bad conclusions, e.g. pushing for HATEOAS in their API.