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Re: OPES charter proposal again.

2001-07-04 00:34:32

At 11:03 PM 7/3/2001, James P. Salsman wrote:
I hope that the latest attempt at the OPES charter is resoundingly
rejected by the IESG.

The key task statement in the opening paragraph of the draft proposal is:

"define application-level protocols enabling such intermediaries to incorporate services that operate on messages transported by HTTP and RTP/RTSP."

"Incorporate services" is vague. Or rather, it says nothing useful. The opening paragraph of a charter is to be widely distributed, to help people decide what a working group is doing and whether it is relevant to one's own work.

The current proposal language is frankly a Rorschach for anyone with any HTTP-related activity that might involve an intermediary.

Later language in the draft do not assuage this fear:

"protocols to be defined provide a framework for integrating a wide range of services".

Specifics (or even examples) are not provided.

Honest. In spite of considerable experience writing and reading IETF charters, I can not tell what problem is to be solved, never mind how.

d/


Addendum  #1:

Either as an minor irritation, or as a major demonstration of deception -- and I can't quite decide which -- the iCAP web page <http://www.i-cap.org/> uses the IETF logo in a fashion that can easily be taken to imply IETF endorsement for <http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-elson-opes-icap-01.txt>.

Addendum #2:

Isn't an implied promise to integrate HTTP and RTP/RTSP rather ambitious?


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