Exactly! It is one impressive spec: clean and simple. Looking at its
adaptation, I wonder why in the world it was not adapted and done in IETF.
On the other hand, it may take too long in IETF, and would require extensive
debate over architecture, framework, requirements... ;-)
- Ping
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja(_at_)bogus(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:32 AM
To: Tony Finch
Cc: Ping Pan; 'IETF discussion list'
Subject: Re: Deployment Cases
Tony Finch wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ping Pan wrote:
Another place that needs some serious help is P2P. The lack of
standard in those areas has negative impact to their growth.
A lot of people wish that p2p were less successful :-)
Bittorrent has about as clear a protocol spec as anything
gets. The fact that it hasn't been blessed by an SDO has not
precluded multiple inter-operable implementations.
Tony.
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