RE: OPES protocol, pre-draft

Hi,
Thanks

abbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov(_at_)measurement-factory(_dot_)com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:23 PM
> To: ietf-openproxy(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
> Subject: RE: OPES protocol, pre-draft
>
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Abbie Barbir wrote:
>
> > Let us be carefull here. So far my main concern with the proposed 
> > protocol is that it looks a lot like ICAP.  The main 
> scenarioes that 
> > are solved so far are basically packaging (or passing )a request to 
> > the callout server, with all the technicalities.
> >
> > We need to start thinking about scenarios that involves the user 
> > preferences, that include the choice of obtaining a service 
> from more 
> > than one source etc..
> >
> > It is far too early to start even thinking about naming the OPES 
> > callout protocol ICAP xxxx.
> I agree with all of the above. The major challenges are still 
> ahead. Message passing is just one (most 
> performance-sensitive, but not the most difficult) part of 
> the protocol.
>
> Alex.