RE: iCAP, OPES and the IETF

At 08:23 AM 05/06/01 -0700, Menon, Rama R wrote:
> I strongly echo the points made by Markus. I believe the lack of an approval
> of ICAP by any standards body - a temporary issue that will change soon - at
> this point does NOT hurt ICAP efforts *as long as* there is the higher goal
> of making a true standard work with a variety of products  from different
> vendors.
Let me (further!) clarify. An Information RFC is not a standard, nor is it 
"approval by ... standards body". It is simply a documentation of fact.
> There are any number of examples of cross-industry efforts (Bluetooth, PCI,
> USB, ...) that didn't have any standards body blessing as a starting point
> to be successful; so, let's co-operate, make iCAP even stronger and get it
> through the normal standards process in IETF, the way communication
> protocols are standardized.
We have had the iCAP Forum for almost 2 years now. Folks wanted us to 
publish the results via the RFC process. That's what we're doing.
As regards "standardization", I am proposing that this happens "within the 
standards process of the IETF". [That's a quote from *my* original email, 
in fact.]
John

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